{"id":777000275,"date":"2022-11-21T12:49:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777000275"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:47:36","slug":"golden-week-offered-little-boost-for-macau-visitor-tally-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/golden-week-offered-little-boost-for-macau-visitor-tally-in-october","title":{"rendered":"Golden Week offered little boost for Macau visitor tally in October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau has reported 580,333 visitor arrivals for October an increase of just 4 per cent when compared to the previous month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- The&nbsp;<strong>Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)&nbsp;<\/strong>has reported that 580,333 tourists arrived in Macau in October. The figure was&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-68-3-in-september\" target=\"_blank\">up 4 per cent when compared to the previous month<\/a>&nbsp;and up 76.8 per cent year-on-year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the growth, the performance was disappointing given that the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-received-182000-visitors-during-october-golden-week\" target=\"_blank\">October Golden Week<\/a> tool place in the first week of the month. Some&nbsp;<strong>182,000 visitors<\/strong>&nbsp;arrived in Macau between October 1 and 7, accounting for 31.4 per cent of the entire month\u2019s arrivals. Of those, 163,000 were from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the DSEC, the&nbsp;<strong>average length of stay&nbsp;<\/strong>was shortened by 0.5 days year-on-year to 1.8 days. Theere were 313,542 overnight visitors and 266,791 same-day visitors, up 181.4 per cent and 23 per cent respectively year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of tourists from mainland China for the month as a whole was 518,843, up 72.4 per cent year-on-year. Of those, 202,166 were travelling under the mainland\u2019s Individual Visit Scheme.&nbsp;Some 311,919 people from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area visited Macau, of which 37.4 per cent were from Zhuhai. There were 49,510 visitors from Hong Kong and 7,614 from Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In October,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-31-6-in-october\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau\u2019s GGR<\/a>&nbsp;was up 31.6 per cent month-on-month, from MOP2.96bn (US$366.3m) to MOP3.90bn (US$482.3m). It was the second month of improvement after Macau\u2019s Covid-related shutdown in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau has reported 580,333 visitor arrivals for October an increase of just 4 per cent when compared to the previous month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"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 reported 580,333 visitor arrivals in October, a modest 4% month-on-month increase, despite the Golden Week holiday. Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for the month, however, saw a robust 31.6% month-on-month increase to MOP3.90bn (US$482.3m), marking the second consecutive month of improvement post-July's Covid-related shutdown.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Zhuhai, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (0.98), marketing_crm (0.85), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.92)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Golden Week Performance Analysis","query":"What specific factors contributed to the lower-than-expected visitor arrivals during the October Golden Week, and how might this influence future tourism promotion strategies for Macau?"},{"label":"GGR vs. Visitor Discrepancy","query":"How does the significant month-on-month GGR increase reconcile with the relatively modest visitor arrival growth, and what does this imply about average spend per visitor or gaming mix within Macau's casinos?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777000275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777000275","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=777000275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777000275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777000291,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777000275\/revisions\/777000291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777000275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777000275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777000275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}