{"id":2611,"date":"2020-01-22T11:12:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T11:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=2611"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:39:43","slug":"visitor-macau-casino-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/visitor-macau-casino-2019","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitors up 10% in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese visitors topped 28 million in 2019, more than 10% compared with 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- Although <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macaus-vip-gambling-fell\">December 2019 registered a big decline<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in VIP revenue, visitor arrivals to Macau increased more than a 10% year-on-year with a total of 39.4 million visitors according to data published by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main increase was in same-day visitors, with a growth of 20%. As for where visitors arrived from, China accounted for around 28 million visitors in 2019, up more than 10% compared with 2018. Hong Kong visitors increased 16% and Taiwan only 0.2% year on year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most people (32 percent) arrived in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-tourism-visitors-2020\">Macau<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by land due to the opening of the Hong Kong Macau Zhuhai Bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This numbers show that 2019 was a great year for Macau, despite what happened last December when the arrivals fell 13.6%,. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This included a 14.5% decline in visitors from China, 39.3% from Korea, 3.9% from Hong Kong and 14.3% from Taiwan.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese visitors topped 28 million in 2019, more than 10% compared with 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau experienced a significant increase in overall visitor arrivals in 2019, reaching 39.4 million, primarily driven by a 10%+ surge from mainland China and a 20% rise in same-day visitors, largely attributed to the Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai Bridge. This growth occurred despite a notable decline in VIP revenue and overall visitor numbers in December 2019, indicating a potential shift in market dynamics towards the mass segment.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau GGR impact?","query":"How did the significant increase in mass market visitor arrivals in 2019, coupled with the decline in VIP revenue, ultimately impact Macau's Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) for the full year, and what are the implications for future growth projections?"},{"label":"Bridge's long-term effect?","query":"What are the long-term strategic implications of the Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai Bridge on Macau's visitor demographics, particularly regarding the sustainability of same-day visitor growth and its influence on gaming vertical diversification?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,16338,158],"tags":[227,257],"class_list":["post-2611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-china","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}