The figure surpasses the target of 50,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- More than 57,000 visitors a day visited Macau in February, according to Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong>, the director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO). That surpasses the city’s target average of 50,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile the MGTO aims to increase the percentage of non-Chinese visitors<\/a> beyond the 2.2 per cent achieved in January to around 10 per cent amid a gradual resumption of international flights and increased convenience of travel between Macau and Hong Kong<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Macau International Travel Expo<\/strong>, which will take place in June, will aim to attract more overseas exhibitors, while travel incentive schemes have been approved benefiting 5,346 people. Sam Lei<\/strong>, executive member of the Macau Trade and Investment Institute, has said that business conventions and academic conferences in March and April will bring in 14,000 attendees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lei reorted that the average expenditure of business visitors is MOP5,000 (US$620)<\/strong>, 1.5 times higher than average travellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The figure surpasses the target of 50,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18164,"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 daily visitor count in February exceeded 57,000, surpassing the 50,000 target, driven by increased travel convenience with Hong Kong and a gradual resumption of international flights. The Macao Government Tourism Office aims to significantly increase non-Chinese visitors from 2.2% to 10%, while business conventions are projected to attract 14,000 high-spending attendees.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Macau Trade and Investment Institute, Sam Lei","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis?","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's integrated resorts given the sustained increase in visitor numbers and the higher expenditure of business travelers?"},{"label":"Diversification Strategy Efficacy?","query":"How will the MGTO's target to increase non-Chinese visitors to 10% impact the long-term market diversification and resilience of Macau's gaming and tourism sector?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777003370","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\/777003370","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=777003370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777003411,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003370\/revisions\/777003411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777003370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777003370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777003370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}