{"id":25435,"date":"2021-12-10T13:54:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T16:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=25435"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:01:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:01:46","slug":"macao-week-attracts-1-9m-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macao-week-attracts-1-9m-visitors","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMacao Week\u201d attracts 1.9m visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), the Macao Week roadshow was attended by 1.9 million visitors and engaged 550 million viewers online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-\u00a0A series of roadshows held by the<strong> Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO)<\/strong>\u00a0in mainland China throughout 2021 attracted 1.9 million visitors and 550 million online viewers. Macao Week was held in Hangzhou, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Chengdu, Sichuan and Chongqing with the aim of promoting Macau&#8217;s gaming and tourist industries after the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last roadshow was held in Chongqing and attracted<strong>\u00a0700,000 visitors and approximately 70 million live viewers<\/strong>. The initiative offers gifts to encourage mainland Chinese to travel, including discounts worth RMB100m. MGTO has said the initiative will be held again next year. <strong>All six casino operators in Macau\u00a0<\/strong>attended the event to showcase their non-gaming products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Macau expects up to 10 million visitors in 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the MGTO, the city could receive up to 10 million visitors in 2022 if Macau finally resumes the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-continues-negotiating-with-mainland-china-on-e-visas\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">e-visa programme with China<\/a>&nbsp;and reopens borders with Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between January to October, the city received 6.08 million tourists, up 32.2 per cent year-on-year. It saw a daily average of 26,655 visitors between November 12 to November 18, while November 19 saw the highest number of arrivals since the beginning of the month with 35,525 visitors for&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-casino-operators-to-sponsor-grand-prix-races\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the finale of the 68th Macau Grand Prix<\/a>.&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-daily-average-of-visitors-continue-to-rise\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The MGTO<\/a>&nbsp;has reported that the number of arrivals has continued to increase over the last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macao Government Tourism Office director&nbsp;<strong>Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes&nbsp;<\/strong>said: \u201cWe really hope that by the end of this year, the city will have had over 7 million visits during 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), the Macao Week roadshow was attended by 1.9 million visitors and engaged 550 million viewers online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) conducted a series of 'Macao Week' roadshows in mainland China throughout 2021, attracting 1.9 million visitors and 550 million online viewers, with all six Macau casino operators showcasing non-gaming products. The initiative aims to revive Macau's gaming and tourism industries post-pandemic, offering significant discounts and projecting up to 10 million visitors in 2022 contingent on e-visa resumption with China and border reopening with Hong Kong.","focusai_entities":"Macau Government Tourism Office, MGTO, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Six casino operators in Macau","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Chengdu, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's casino operators if the e-visa program with mainland China and border reopening with Hong Kong are fully reinstated in 2022?"},{"label":"Non-Gaming Efficacy","query":"How effective were the non-gaming product showcases by Macau's six casino operators in diversifying revenue streams and attracting new visitor segments during the Macao Week roadshows?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-25435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-social-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25457,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25435\/revisions\/25457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}