The association wants to promote the Greater Bay Area for multi-destination trips to attach high-spending tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- Lawmaker Cheung Kin Chung<\/strong>, who is also president of the Macau Hoteliers and Innkeepers Association, has called for Macau to link up with Hong Kong and nine mainland Chinese cities in Guangdong province to create multi-destination packages for tourists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He says this would help to promote the region and offer a more competitive tourism product. Cheung said that Macau needs to look beyond its traditional source markets<\/strong> and that the Greater Bay Area has the potential to bring in new high-spending tourists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Asian Gaming Brief, he said: “There are 70 million people that live in the Greater Bay Area, Macau has its own charm, so we need to dive deep into that market.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Macau seeks to diversify from its reliance on gambling. Sands China\u2019s president Wilfred Wong <\/strong>recently stated that the region needs to increase its hotel room supply<\/a> and identified the relatively low inventory of hotel rooms in Macau as being an issue for the growth of MICE tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In January<\/a> and February<\/a> combined, Macau registered almost 3 million inbound visitors, following the lifting of most Covid-19-related countermeasures in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visitors from mainland China accounted for 1,003,999 of those visitors, while 523,271 came from Hong Kong. In 2022, Greater Bay Area visitors arrivals represented 75 per cent of total visitor arrivals at 3.85 million. This was during a period of strict border control measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The association wants to promote the Greater Bay Area for multi-destination trips to attach high-spending tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21776,"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 is strategically pursuing economic diversification by advocating for multi-destination tourism packages within the Greater Bay Area (GBA) to attract high-spending visitors and mitigate reliance on gaming GGR. Industry leaders emphasize the imperative to expand hotel room inventory to capitalize on MICE tourism growth and leverage the GBA's substantial demographic for sustainable visitor volume.","focusai_entities":"Cheung Kin Chung, Macau Hoteliers and Innkeepers Association, Sands China, Wilfred Wong, Asian Gaming Brief","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong, Guangdong, China, Greater Bay Area","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.98), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"MICE Supply Expansion?","query":"What specific policy incentives or capital expenditure commitments are being considered to accelerate hotel room supply expansion in Macau to meet projected MICE tourism demand?"},{"label":"GBA Package Logistics?","query":"How will the proposed multi-destination Greater Bay Area tourism packages address cross-border logistical complexities and ensure equitable revenue distribution among participating operators and jurisdictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777004009","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\/777004009","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=777004009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777004028,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004009\/revisions\/777004028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}