{"id":34130,"date":"2022-10-05T09:09:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T12:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=34130"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:14:43","slug":"37427-visit-macau-on-first-day-of-october-golden-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/37427-visit-macau-on-first-day-of-october-golden-week","title":{"rendered":"37,427 visit Macau on first day of October Golden Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau has recorded its highest daily visitor number since its last Covid-19 outbreak in mid-June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-&nbsp;<strong>China\u2019s national holidays<\/strong>&nbsp;began on Saturday (October 1) and preliminary data from the Macau government shows that despite low expectations, visitor numbers look fairly promising. According to the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), <strong>37,427<\/strong> entered Macau on Saturday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 91,509 people arrived in the first three days of October, up 1,595 per cent from the same period last year.&nbsp;That makes for an average daily rate of 30,815, the highest since June 18, prior to Macau&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/a-new-outbreak-of-covid-19-cases-in-macau-puts-casinos-on-alert\" target=\"_blank\">latest Covid-19 outbreak.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Golden Week will run until <strong>October 7<\/strong>. Ahead of the holiday, China\u2019s National Health Commission had urged mainland residents to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-urges-people-to-avoid-travel-during-holiday-periods\" target=\"_blank\">avoid long-distance travel<\/a> to avoid the risk of spreading Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, only&nbsp;<strong>8,159 people<\/strong>&nbsp;arrived in Macau during the October Golden week due to an outbreak of Covid-19 cases. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau has recorded its highest daily visitor number since its last Covid-19 outbreak in mid-June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21776,"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 has reported its highest daily visitor count since mid-June, with 37,427 arrivals on October 1st and an average of 30,815 daily during the initial three days of China's Golden Week. This represents a substantial 1,595% year-on-year increase for the period, indicating a nascent recovery in tourism and potential GGR uplift, despite prevailing Covid-19 travel advisories from China's National Health Commission.","focusai_entities":"Macau Government Tourism Office, China\u2019s National Health Commission","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's integrated resorts, considering these Golden Week visitation figures and average spend per visitor?"},{"label":"Recovery Trajectory","query":"How do these visitor numbers compare to pre-pandemic Golden Week performance, and what is the revised long-term recovery outlook for Macau's gaming market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-34130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34130","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=34130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34151,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34130\/revisions\/34151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}