{"id":29535,"date":"2022-05-04T06:36:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T09:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=29535"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:03:12","slug":"macau-labour-day-break-visitor-tally-remains-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-labour-day-break-visitor-tally-remains-low","title":{"rendered":"Macau Labour Day break visitor tally remains low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Public Security Police Force has reported only 24,212 visitor arrivals on the fourth day of the Labour Day break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Tourist arrivals in Macau over the<strong>\u00a0Labour Day break<\/strong>\u00a0remain low, with just 116,656 visitor arrivals over the first four days of the five-day national holiday period. The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-receives-92400-arrivals-in-first-three-days-of-labour-day-break\" target=\"_blank\">first day<\/a>\u00a0saw a peak of 41,544 visitors, but subsequent daily totals shrunk to 25,900, 25,000 and 24,212 on May 1, May 2 and May 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, previous to the Covid-19 pandemic, the city recorded over 636,600 visitor arrivals during the holiday period. In 2021\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-occupancy-hits-83-2-during-labour-day-break\" target=\"_blank\">165,500 tourists visited Macau<\/a> during the break. Today is the last day of the official holiday period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Macau GGR at lowest level since September 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau<\/strong>\u2018s figures show that GGR for the month of April was down 71.1 per cent month-on-month from MOP3.67bn (US$454.5m) to MOP2.68bn (US$331m). That\u2019s the lowest level since September 2020, when the tally was MOP2.2bn, and represents a drop of 68.1 per cent&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-1-01-in-april\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">when compared to April 2021<\/a>\u2018s revenue of MOP8.40bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the DICJ, the decline was mainly due to the rise in Covid-19 cases in mainland China, which affected the arrival of tourists in the city.&nbsp;<strong>Macau\u2019s GGR for the first four months of 2022&nbsp;<\/strong>combined stands at MOP20.45bn (US$2.55bn), down 36.2 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Security Police Force has reported only 24,212 visitor arrivals on the fourth day of the Labour Day break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25802,"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 significantly subdued tourist arrivals during the Labour Day break, with only 116,656 visitors over four days, representing a substantial decline compared to pre-pandemic figures. Concurrently, April's Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) plummeted by 71.1% month-on-month to MOP2.68bn, marking the lowest level since September 2020, primarily attributed to the resurgence of COVID-19 cases in mainland China impacting inbound tourism.","focusai_entities":"Public Security Police Force, Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, DICJ","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Outlook","query":"What is the projected timeline for Macau's GGR recovery, considering the persistent impact of mainland China's dynamic zero-COVID policy on inbound tourism?"},{"label":"Operator Strategy Adjustments","query":"How are Macau's integrated resort operators recalibrating their capital expenditure and operational strategies in response to the sustained low GGR and visitor volumes?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-29535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29535","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=29535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29563,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29535\/revisions\/29563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}