{"id":28144,"date":"2022-03-16T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=28144"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:28:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:28:01","slug":"the-philippines-to-resume-visa-free-travel-for-macau-and-hk-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/the-philippines-to-resume-visa-free-travel-for-macau-and-hk-residents","title":{"rendered":"The Philippines to resume visa-free travel for Macau and HK residents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities have announced that residents of Macau and Hong Kong will be allowed to enter the country as temporary visitors without a visa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines.- Authorities in The Philippines have confirmed that the <strong>country has resumed visa-free travel<\/strong>\u00a0for Hong Kong and Macau residents in an effort to boost its tourism industry. The policy had been suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic but visitors can now stay for 14 days without a visa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the measure is unlikely to have a significant impact\u00a0on tourism in the short term due to new Covid-19 countermeasures in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/casino-stocks-fall-as-macau-toughens-covid-19-measures-for-guangdong-and-other-areas\" target=\"_blank\">Macau<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/hong-kong-may-postpone-mass-testing-for-covid-19-until-april\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/the-philippines-to-reopen-to-fully-vaccinated-tourists\" target=\"_blank\">The Philippines reopened its borders<\/a>\u00a0to fully vaccinated tourists after a two-year closure.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>The country had initially planned to reopen in December 2021<\/strong>\u00a0following an increase in vaccinations and a drop in Covid-19 infections, however, the Omicron strain delayed those plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to\u00a0<strong>acting presidential spokesperson and Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles<\/strong>, in 2021 the country saw only 1.4 million arrivals, significantly lower than the 3.6 million in 2020. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, The Philippines was seeing 16.9 million annual arrivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have announced that residents of Macau and Hong Kong will be allowed to enter the country as temporary visitors without a visa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18057,"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 Philippines has reinstated visa-free travel for residents of Macau and Hong Kong, allowing 14-day stays, a measure aimed at revitalizing its tourism sector post-pandemic. While this policy seeks to boost visitor arrivals, its immediate impact may be mitigated by ongoing COVID-19 countermeasures in Macau and Hong Kong. This development follows the Philippines' broader border reopening to fully vaccinated tourists in February, as the nation works to recover pre-pandemic visitor volumes.","focusai_entities":"Karlo Nograles","focusai_location":"The Philippines, Macau, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR","query":"What is the projected impact of this visa policy on the Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) of integrated resorts in the Philippines, considering the ongoing COVID-19 countermeasures in Macau and Hong Kong?"},{"label":"Capital Market Outlook","query":"How might this policy adjustment influence the capital market outlook and investment attractiveness of publicly traded integrated resort operators in the Philippines?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23876,16333],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-news","category-south-east-asia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28144","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=28144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28153,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28144\/revisions\/28153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}