Just 212,311 visited Macau in March due to the restriction still in place to prevent the spread of Covid-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- The Statistic and Census Bureau<\/strong><\/em> announced that the number of visitors during March in Macau fell by 93.7 per cent year-on-year to 212,311 due to restrictions in place to prevent the spread of Covid-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Visitor numbers have been in free fall since restrictions were put in place, including the temporary suspension of individual and group visas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While times are undoubtedly tough, the number of visitors to Macau in March represents a 35.8 per cent increase on from February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But year on year, the numbers reflect the impact the Coronavirus crisis is having.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Overnight visitors (125,896) and same-day visitors (86,415) declined respectively by 92.0 per cent and 95.2 per cent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The average length of stay of visitors went up by 1.8 days year-on-year to 3.0 days; overnight visitors prolonged their stay by 2.5 days to 4.7 days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The duration for same-day visitors remained unchanged at 0.2 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In terms of source markets, the number of mainland Chinese visitors fell by 96.3 per cent year-on-year to 88,890. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) fell 99.4 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visitors from Hong Kong (111,347) fell by 81.5 per cent from the prior-year period, while those from other major source markets showed decreases of more than 90 per cent, the Bureau said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just 212,311 visited Macau in March due to the restriction still in place to prevent the spread of Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5012,"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 a 93.7% year-on-year decline in visitor arrivals during March, totaling 212,311, primarily due to ongoing COVID-19 travel restrictions. Despite a 35.8% month-on-month increase from February, the data underscores the severe impact on the region's gaming and hospitality sectors, with significant drops across all key source markets.","focusai_entities":"Statistic and Census Bureau","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR impact for Macau's concessionaires given the March visitor data and ongoing restrictions?"},{"label":"Travel Policy Influence","query":"How do these visitor statistics influence the timeline for potential easing of travel restrictions and visa policies by Mainland Chinese authorities?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,161,16338,158],"tags":[12436,257],"class_list":["post-6040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-casinos","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6040"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777009456,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions\/777009456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}