{"id":33677,"date":"2022-09-21T07:38:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T10:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=33677"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:42:14","slug":"macau-doubts-about-benefit-from-hong-kongs-easing-of-covid-19-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-doubts-about-benefit-from-hong-kongs-easing-of-covid-19-measures","title":{"rendered":"Macau: doubts about benefit from Hong Kong&#8217;s easing of Covid-19 measures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Andy Wu Keng Kuong, president of the Macau Travel Industry Council, said the measure would have little impact on Macau&#8217;s tourism sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- <strong>Andy Wu Keng Kuong<\/strong>, president of the Macau Travel Industry Council, doesn&#8217;t think the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/hong-kong-may-ease-covid-19-countermeasures-for-incoming-travellers\" target=\"_blank\">possible relaxation of Covid-19 measures in Hong Kong<\/a> will offer much benefit to tourism and gaming in Macau. Wu Keng Kuong told Macao Daily News if Macau maintains its quarantine on inbound travellers, Hong Kong&#8217;s move would make little difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau currently implements a &#8220;seven plus three&#8221; policy: seven days of hotel quarantine, and then three days of health &#8220;self-management&#8221;, during which the person\u2019s Macau digital health code is \u2018yellow\u2019 and they cannot enter a variety of places, including casinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wu Keng Kuong stressed that even if Hong Kong adopts a &#8220;zero plus seven&#8221; policy on entry, it won&#8217;t be very beneficial for Macau. He suggested\u00a0<strong>Macau should reduce quarantine days<\/strong>\u00a0to five or fewer in order to attract more tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau has\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-to-reopen-borders-to-41-countries\" target=\"_blank\">reopened its borders to 41 countries<\/a>, but mainland China remains the main source of tourism for Macau as it is the only place that has a largely quarantine-free travel arrangement with the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Wu Keng Kuong, president of the Macau Travel Industry Council, said the measure would have little impact on Macau&#8217;s tourism sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":24979,"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 president of the Macau Travel Industry Council, Andy Wu Keng Kuong, asserts that potential COVID-19 measure relaxation in Hong Kong will have minimal impact on Macau's tourism and gaming sectors if Macau maintains its stringent \"seven plus three\" quarantine policy. He advocates for Macau to reduce its quarantine period to five days or fewer to stimulate inbound tourism, emphasizing Mainland China's critical role as the primary source market.","focusai_entities":"Andy Wu Keng Kuong, Macau Travel Industry Council, Macao Daily News","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), gambler_consumer (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR impact on Macau's gaming sector if the 'seven plus three' quarantine policy persists versus a reduction to five days or fewer?"},{"label":"Policy Alignment Rationale","query":"What are the primary regulatory and public health considerations preventing Macau from aligning its inbound travel policies with Hong Kong's potential 'zero plus seven' framework?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-33677","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\/33677","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=33677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33683,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33677\/revisions\/33683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}