{"id":33681,"date":"2022-09-21T08:03:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T11:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=33681"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:41:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:41:54","slug":"macau-visitor-arrivals-up-32-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-32-in-august","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitor arrivals up 3,2% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau registered 331,397 visitor arrivals in August amid an easing of cross-border measures between Zhuhai and Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The&nbsp;<strong>Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)&nbsp;<\/strong>has reported that 331,397 tourists arrived in Macau in August. The figure was&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-down-98-8-in-july\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">up 3,2 per cent month-on-month<\/a>&nbsp;but down 19.0 per cent when compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the DSEC, overnight visitors increased by 17.5 per cent year-on-year to 177,640, while same-day visitors fell by 40.4 per cent to 153,757.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Affected by the previous wave of the epidemic, some tourists extended their stay to August, and the average stay of overnight guests increased by 1.5 days to 5.4 days year-on-year. At the same time, the same-day visitor stays increased from 0.1 to 0.2 days, and the average visitor stays increased from 1.2 to 2.8 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of tourist sources, there were 290,138 tourists from mainland China, a year-on-year decrease of 21.5 per cent, of which 124,255 were individual tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first eight months of 2022, <strong>visitor arrivals were down by 25.8 per cent year-over-year to 3,806,263<\/strong>. The tally of same-day visitors, at 2,341,772, and overnight visitors, at 1,464,491, fell by 6.5 per cent and 44.2 per cent respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau&#8217;s gross gaming revenue (GGR) was up 450 per cent in August, from MOP398m (US$49.2m) to MOP2.19bn (US$270.8m). However, the figure was down 50.7 per cent&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-down-47-7-in-august\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">when compared to August 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau\u2019s GGR for the&nbsp;<strong>first eight months of 2022&nbsp;<\/strong>combined stands at MOP28.86bn (US$3.58bn), down 53.4 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau registered 331,397 visitor arrivals in August amid an easing of cross-border measures between Zhuhai and Macau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":22443,"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 recorded 331,397 visitor arrivals in August, a 3.2% month-on-month increase but a 19.0% year-on-year decrease, influenced by eased cross-border measures and extended stays. Concurrently, Macau's Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) surged 450% month-on-month to MOP2.19bn (US$270.8m) in August, though it remained 50.7% below August 2021 levels, with year-to-date GGR down 53.4%.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, Zhuhai, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Outlook","query":"What are the projected GGR trajectories for Macau in Q4 2022 and H1 2023, considering the observed visitor arrival trends and potential further easing of cross-border restrictions?"},{"label":"Visitor Demographics Impact","query":"How do the shifts in overnight vs. same-day visitor mix and average length of stay impact the non-gaming revenue potential and overall profitability margins for Macau's integrated resorts?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-33681","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\/33681","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=33681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33686,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33681\/revisions\/33686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}