{"id":29502,"date":"2022-05-03T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=29502"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:05:22","slug":"macau-receives-92400-arrivals-in-first-three-days-of-labour-day-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-receives-92400-arrivals-in-first-three-days-of-labour-day-break","title":{"rendered":"Macau receives 92,400 arrivals in first three days of Labour Day break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The city received 41,544 visitors on the first day, but numbers have since fallen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The\u00a0long-awaited Labour Day break\u00a0<\/strong>is not proving to be as successful as Macau would have liked. The\u00a0Public Security Police Force\u00a0<\/strong>has reported 92,400 visitor arrivals over the first three days of the national holiday period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first day, April 30, saw 41,544 visitors arrive \u2013 below first-day arrivals in 2021. Subsequent daily totals shrunk to 25,900 and 25,000 on May 1 and May 2 respectively. The figures so however surpass the\u00a0Macao Government Tourism Office’s <\/strong>expectations for now. Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes had said she expected the city would receive\u00a0a daily tally of more than 25,000 visitor arrivals<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s State Council has designated April 30 to May 4 as this year\u2019s Labour Day break, a period which usually sees strong market demand in Macau. Last year 165,500 tourists came to Macau<\/a> during the holiday period. The first day was the peak, with 44,000 arrivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau\u2019s\u00a0Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre\u00a0<\/strong>has recently extended the validity of pre-arrival Covid-19 tests to 72 hours from 48 hours for inbound travellers from Guangdong.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau evaluates reopening borders to tourists from certain countries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As previously reported by Focus Gaming News, the government of Macau is evaluating a plan to allow selected non-residents to enter the city. Elsie Ao Ieong<\/strong>, Macau\u2019s secretary for social affairs and culture, has told local media reports that authorities are considering countries that have a close connection with Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ao Ieong said selected countries may be those where Macau residents have family members, are studying abroad, and where a large number of Macau professionals are required. She said Macau hoped to open soon to arrivals from Portugal, in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The city received 41,544 visitors on the first day, but numbers have since fallen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18164,"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's Labour Day holiday visitor numbers fell short of 2021 levels, with 92,400 arrivals over three days, though exceeding the Macao Government Tourism Office's daily expectation of 25,000. Concurrently, Macau is evaluating plans to reopen borders to selected non-residents, particularly from countries with strong existing ties like Portugal, and has extended COVID-19 test validity for Guangdong travellers.","focusai_entities":"Public Security Police Force, Macao Government Tourism Office, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, China\u2019s State Council, Macau\u2019s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre, Elsie Ao Ieong, Focus Gaming News","focusai_location":"Macau, Guangdong, China, Portugal","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau GGR Impact?","query":"What is the projected impact of these Labour Day visitor figures and potential border reopenings on Macau's Q2 Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for integrated resort operators?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Changes?","query":"How might the evaluation of border reopening to selected non-residents necessitate adjustments to Macau's existing regulatory compliance and governance frameworks for inbound travel and gaming operations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,158,23876],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-29502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","category-social-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29502","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=29502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29532,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29502\/revisions\/29532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}