{"id":26980,"date":"2022-02-04T08:21:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T11:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=26980"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:36:29","slug":"macau-visitors-down-10-2-in-first-days-of-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitors-down-10-2-in-first-days-of-chinese-new-year","title":{"rendered":"Macau: visitors down 10.2% in first days of Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau received a daily average of 11,600 visitors on the first three days of the Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) shared the first data on Chinese New Year arrivals and revealed\u00a0<strong>the city welcomed nearly 35,000 visitors<\/strong>\u00a0in the first three days of the national holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The daily average of 11,600 was down 10,2 per cent\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitors-down-76-in-first-days-of-chinese-new-year\" target=\"_blank\">when compared to 2021 results<\/a>.\u00a0The number of mainland tourists in the first three days of the holiday this year was about 32,100. Mainland China is currently the only place with a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/covid-19-vaccine-passports-could-speed-up-macau-tourism-recovery\" target=\"_blank\">quarantine-free travel arrangement<\/a>\u00a0with Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A representative of the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) had previously told local media he expected Macau to receive 20,000 daily visitors&nbsp;<strong>during the Chinese New Year Golden Week<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, the city welcomed a total of 90,615 visitors, with&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-fewer-visitors-than-expected-for-cny\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a daily average number of 12,945 tourists<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau received a daily average of 11,600 visitors on the first three days of the Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26764,"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 recorded a daily average of 11,600 visitors during the first three days of the Chinese New Year, totaling nearly 35,000. This figure represents a 10.2% decline compared to 2021 and falls short of the Macao Government Tourism Office's projection of 20,000 daily visitors, with Mainland China remaining the sole source of quarantine-free travel.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, MGTO","focusai_location":"Macau, Mainland China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Q1 GGR?","query":"How will these lower-than-expected visitor numbers impact the Q1 GGR projections for Macau's concessionaires, and what are the implications for their EBITDA margins?"},{"label":"Stimulus for tourism?","query":"What specific policy adjustments might the Macao Government Tourism Office or central government consider to stimulate inbound tourism, particularly from non-Mainland China markets, given the current travel restrictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-26980","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\/26980","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=26980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27005,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26980\/revisions\/27005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}