{"id":29580,"date":"2022-05-05T06:49:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T09:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=29580"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:00:30","slug":"macau-labour-day-break-arrivals-down-18-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-labour-day-break-arrivals-down-18-2","title":{"rendered":"Macau Labour Day break arrivals down 18.2%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

China’s Labour Day break from April 20 to May 4 saw 136,647 people visit Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- As feared, Macau’s Labour Day break has finished with disappointing visitor numbers this year. Only 136,647 tourists visited Macau during the national holiday period from April 30 to May 1.\u00a0As usual, the first day saw the peak number of arrivals, with 41,544<\/a>. Arrivals then dropped sharply, with only 20,000 arriving on May 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The overall number represents a drop of 18.2 per cent compared to 2021, when\u00a0165,500 tourists visited Macau<\/a>\u00a0during the break, and a long way from pre-pandemic numbers. In 2019, 636,600 people visited Macau during the break. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, authorities had hoped to see 167,000 arrivals, but that became unlikely after China’s National Health Commission warned citizens not to take long trips during the holidays due to the risk of rising Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The government of Macau is reportedly evaluating a plan to allow certain non-residents to enter the city.\u00a0Elsie 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, where a large number of Macau professionals are required. She said Macau hoped to open soon to arrivals from Portugal, in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mainland China continues to be the only country to have a largely quarantine-free travel bubble<\/a> with Macau. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China’s Labour Day break from April 20 to May 4 saw 136,647 people visit Macau.<\/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 recent Labour Day break concluded with a significant 18.2% year-on-year decline in visitor arrivals, falling short of projections due to mainland China's COVID-19 travel advisories. Concurrently, Macau authorities are evaluating a phased border reopening strategy for non-residents from select countries, notably Portugal, aiming to diversify inbound tourism and mitigate the impact of reduced mainland Chinese visitation on GGR.","focusai_entities":"Elsie Ao Ieong, China\u2019s National Health Commission","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Portugal","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR impact for Macau's concessionaires given the Labour Day visitor decline and the ongoing mainland China travel restrictions, and how does this affect Q2 earnings forecasts?"},{"label":"Diversification Strategy","query":"How might Macau's proposed phased reopening to international markets, specifically Portugal, alter the jurisdiction's long-term tourism and gaming revenue diversification strategy, and what are the associated B2B\/B2C licensing implications?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-29580","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\/29580","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=29580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29584,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29580\/revisions\/29584"}],"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=29580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}