Secretary for Security, Wong Sio Chak, says mainland government needs to green light any easing to border and travel restrictions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- Legislators in Macau have urged the government to lift border restrictions with Guandong Province in order to boost the city’s economy and gaming and tourism industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the Secretary for Security, Wong Sio Chak, said that while the SAR is working with China to lift restrictions, they are still waiting for a response from the mainland government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMacau cannot make the decision, it is a communication between Zhuhai city, Guangdong province and even the Central government,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the moment, restrictions involve a mandatory quarantine for all arrivals in Macau while Guangdong is implementing its own Coronavirus quarantine protocols. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some analysts have said these measures are effectively a second casino shutdown because they are preventing tourists from accessing Macau by land at a time when air travel to the peninsula is almost non-existent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Secretary for Security, Wong Sio Chak, says mainland government needs to green light any easing to border and travel restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2904,"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 legislators are urging the government to ease border restrictions with Guangdong Province to revitalize the city's gaming and tourism sectors. However, Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak stated that any decision to lift these critical travel limitations, which are significantly impacting GGR, requires approval from the mainland Chinese government, highlighting Macau's limited autonomy in this matter.","focusai_entities":"Wong Sio Chak, Macau government, Chinese government","focusai_location":"Macau, Zhuhai, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), gambler_consumer (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Timeline","query":"What specific GGR recovery projections are being revised by major Macau concessionaires given the protracted border restrictions and reliance on mainland government approval?"},{"label":"Regulatory Autonomy Implications","query":"How does Macau's limited autonomy in border policy, as highlighted by Secretary Wong Sio Chak, impact its long-term regulatory and economic governance frameworks within the SAR model?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338,158],"tags":[227,7299,512,257],"class_list":["post-6098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-gaming","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098","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=6098"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6119,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098\/revisions\/6119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}