{"id":26772,"date":"2022-01-31T07:26:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T10:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=26772"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:47:16","slug":"macau-expects-20000-daily-visitors-for-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-expects-20000-daily-visitors-for-chinese-new-year","title":{"rendered":"Macau expects 20,000 daily visitors for Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Authorities in Macau are confident the city could receive nearly 20,000 daily visitors over the Chinese New Year holidays due to the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in Zhuhai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- A representative of the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has told local media he expects\u00a0Macau to receive 20,000 daily visitors during the Chinese New Year Golden Week<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities in Zhuhai have eased Covid-19 testing requirements for those wishing to travel to Macau\u00a0from mainland cities, which could help tourist numbers. Since January 29, people intending to transit through Zhuhai need to hold a negative nucleic acid test certificate for Covid-19 issued within 48 hours. The previous requirement was 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Macao Government Tourism Office director\u00a0Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes\u00a0<\/strong>previously told Chinese Radio Ou Mun Tin Toi that\u00a0authorities expected 40,000 visitors daily<\/a>. This year the Chinese New Year period will be between February 1 and February 3.\u00a0In 2021, the city welcomed a total of 90,615 visitors, with\u00a0a daily average number of 12,945 tourists<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau visitor arrivals up 30.7% in 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)<\/a> has reported that Macau received 7.971m tourists in 2021<\/strong>, up 30.7 per cent year-on-year. The average length of stay of visitors increased to 1.6 days during the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of overnight visitors in 2021 was close to 3.7 million, a year-on-year increase of 31 per cent. Official figures show that overnight visitors accounted for 48 per cent of total visitor arrivals<\/strong>. The number of visitors to Macau on the same day increased by 30.4 per cent to about 4.01 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authorities in Macau are confident the city could receive nearly 20,000 daily visitors over the Chinese New Year holidays due to the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in Zhuhai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26796,"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 anticipates nearly 20,000 daily visitors during the Chinese New Year holidays, driven by eased COVID-19 testing requirements in Zhuhai. This forecast, while significant, remains below initial expectations of 40,000 daily visitors. The city's 2021 visitor arrivals increased by 30.7% year-on-year to 7.971 million.","focusai_entities":"Macau Government Tourism Office, MGTO, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Statistics and Census Service, DSEC","focusai_location":"Macau, Zhuhai, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.85), operator_casino (0.95), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.8), marketing_crm (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's integrated resorts during the Chinese New Year Golden Week, considering the revised visitor forecasts and average spend per visitor?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Adaptations","query":"How might the Macau SAR government's regulatory and public health frameworks adapt to manage potential surges in visitor traffic beyond current forecasts, particularly concerning border controls and operational compliance for gaming verticals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-26772","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\/26772","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=26772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26804,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772\/revisions\/26804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}