It’s the highest tally in three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- Authorities have reported that Macau received 71,672<\/strong> tourists <\/strong>on the second day of the Chinese New Year holiday period. Monday’s (January 23) tally represents 40.8 per cent<\/strong> of what was recorded on the second day of the Chinese New Year of pre-pandemic 2019 (175,453) but is the highest tally since January 23, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visitor numbers on Sunday, the first day of the Chinese New Year, were 50,090<\/strong>. The tourism department expects that today, the third day of the Chinese New Year, will see a further increase in entries as more tourists come to the city, mainly from mainland China and Hong Kong)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong> said last week that most hotels in Macau were fully booked<\/a> for the holiday period. The tourism bureau had said it expects 40,000 to 50,000 daily arrivals<\/a> during the Chinese New Year holiday, which ends on Sunday, February 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s the highest tally in three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26697,"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 71,672 tourist arrivals on the second day of the Chinese New Year holiday, marking the highest daily tally in three years, though still 40.8% of pre-pandemic 2019 levels. This surge, primarily from mainland China and Hong Kong, aligns with expectations from the Macao Government Tourism Office, which noted full hotel bookings for the period. The trend indicates a significant recovery in visitor volume for the Special Administrative Region's integrated resort sector.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes","focusai_location":"Macau, mainland China, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.85), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.98), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Conversion Impact?","query":"What is the projected GGR conversion rate from these visitor numbers for Macau's concessionaires, considering historical trends and current gaming vertical performance?"},{"label":"Operational Capacity Scaling?","query":"How are Macau's integrated resorts planning to scale operational capacity, including staffing and B2B supplier engagement, to sustain this increased visitor influx and optimize NGR?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777001702","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\/777001702","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=777001702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777001733,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001702\/revisions\/777001733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777001702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777001702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777001702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}