{"id":777002510,"date":"2023-02-17T12:53:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777002510"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:32:44","slug":"macau-visitor-arrivals-down-31-5-in-q4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-down-31-5-in-q4","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitor arrivals down 31.5% in Q4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Same-day visits dropped by 48.4 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-&nbsp;The <strong>Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)<\/strong>&nbsp;has reported that Macau received 1.36 million visitors in the three months to December 31, 2022. The figure was down 31.5 per cent year-on-year. Same-day visits were down <strong>48.4 per cent<\/strong> at 597,000 and overnight visits 6.8 per cent at 793,300.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average length of stay increased, but the average hotel occupancy rate was 41 per cent, a decrease of 7.9 percentage points. Some 1.36 million stayed in hotels, a year-on-year decrease of 14.3 per cent. There were 37,698 rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Results are expected to show a turnaround in the first quarter of the current year, which has seen visitation boosted by the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-records-451047-tourist-arrivals-during-chinese-new-year\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese New Year holiday<\/a>, the ending of COVID-19 travel restrictions and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-package-tours-from-mainland-china-to-resume\" target=\"_blank\">the resumption of package tours<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, Macau registered 5.7m visitor arrivals, down 26 per cent&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-30-7-in-2021\" target=\"_blank\">year-on-year<\/a>.&nbsp;Of those, 5.11 million came from mainland China, which represents nearly 90 per cent of all visitor arrivals. The vast majority (5.1 million) came from Guangdong province (5.1m).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Same-day visits dropped by 48.4 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26653,"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 Q4 2022 visitor arrivals declined 31.5% year-on-year to 1.36 million, with same-day visits dropping significantly by 48.4%. For the full year 2022, total visitor arrivals were down 26% to 5.7 million, predominantly from mainland China. However, a robust recovery is anticipated for Q1 2023, driven by the lifting of COVID-19 travel restrictions and the resumption of package tours.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Guangdong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (1.0), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Q1 2023 GGR Impact","query":"How are the anticipated Q1 2023 visitor recovery trends expected to translate into Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) growth for Macau's concessionaires, particularly considering the shift in visitor mix?"},{"label":"Operational Capacity","query":"What operational adjustments, including staffing and amenity availability, are Macau's integrated resorts implementing to manage the projected surge in visitation and optimize Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) post-reopening?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777002510","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\/777002510","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=777002510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777002544,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002510\/revisions\/777002544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777002510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777002510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777002510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}