{"id":777003439,"date":"2023-03-17T14:35:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777003439"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:40:05","slug":"macau-visitor-arrivals-up-143-1-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-143-1-in-february","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitor arrivals up 143.1% in February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities have reported that February saw visitor arrivals rise to over 1.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The\u00a0<strong>Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)\u00a0<\/strong>has reported that 1.59 million visitors arrived in Macau in February. That\u2019s an increase of 143.1 per cent when compared to last year and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-101-3-in-january\" target=\"_blank\">14 per cent month-on-month<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities reported that 53 per cent of visitors stayed in the city for more than one night, up 202 per cent, although the average length of stay dropped to 1.3 days.\u00a0Mainland Chinese visitors grew by 64.8 per cent in year-on-year terms to a little over one million, while Greater Bay Area tourists increased by 43.7 per cent when to 552,094.\u00a0To date, 2023 has seen 2.9 million visitors, a year-on-year increase of 121.6 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO)\u00a0has said that Macau <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-aims-to-increase-number-of-visitors-from-overseas\" target=\"_blank\">aims to increase the percentage of non-Chinese visitors<\/a>\u00a0beyond the 2.2 per cent achieved in January to around 10 per cent amid a gradual resumption of international flights and increased convenience of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-eases-entry-measures-for-visitors-from-hong-kong\" target=\"_blank\">travel between Macau and Hong Kong<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, Macau experienced a year-on-year decrease of 26 per cent in total visitor arrivals, with\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-down-26-in-2022\" target=\"_blank\">a record low of 5.7 million for the year<\/a>. This was the lowest number of annual visitor arrivals since 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have reported that February saw visitor arrivals rise to over 1.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25621,"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 1.59 million visitor arrivals in February, a 143.1% year-on-year increase, signaling a robust recovery in tourism. While Mainland Chinese visitors remain dominant, the Macao Government Tourism Office aims to significantly increase the proportion of international visitors to diversify its tourism base. This rebound follows a record low in 2022, underscoring the market's post-pandemic revitalization.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO)","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's integrated resorts given the February visitor arrival data and the average length of stay?"},{"label":"Diversification Strategy Efficacy","query":"How will the Macao Government Tourism Office's strategy to increase non-Chinese visitors to 10% impact the market's long-term revenue stability and reduce reliance on a single source market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777003439","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\/777003439","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=777003439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777003451,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003439\/revisions\/777003451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777003439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777003439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777003439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}