{"id":777004124,"date":"2023-04-10T12:56:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T15:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777004124"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:01:24","slug":"macau-expects-90-hotel-occupancy-for-labour-day-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-expects-90-hotel-occupancy-for-labour-day-holiday","title":{"rendered":"Macau expects 90% hotel occupancy for Labour Day holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>However, room availability is restricted due to the labour shortage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Macau is expecting high hotel occupancy for the upcoming<strong> Labour Day <\/strong>holiday. The head of the city&#8217;s tourism bureau has revealed that occupancy averaged 75 per cent throughout March, but projections indicate <strong>90 per cent <\/strong>for the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities have been working to attract visitors from Hong Kong and overseas to Macau. But <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-casinos-struggle-to-meet-demand-due-to-labour-shortage\" target=\"_blank\">the city is facing a shortage of manpower<\/a>, with many five-star hotels operating well below their capacity. Reports suggest that some operators are only providing half of their rooms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Billy Song<\/strong>, president of the Macau Responsible Gaming Association told Bloomberg there had been more than 44,000 departures of non-local employees from Macau since early 2020, leaving a hole in the labour force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the challenges, the tourism industry is seeing some positive signs. During the Ching Ming festival, over 74,000 tourists visited Macau, with 34,000 coming from Hong Kong. Over 93,000 visitors were estimated to have entered the city on the Saturday of the Easter weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/melco-opens-three-foreigner-only-gaming-zones-at-macau-casinos\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Melco opens three foreigner-only gaming zones at Macau casinos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, room availability is restricted due to the labour shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26451,"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 anticipates high hotel occupancy for the Labour Day holiday, with projections reaching 90 percent, yet faces significant operational constraints due to a persistent labor shortage. This manpower deficit, stemming from over 44,000 non-local employee departures since early 2020, is forcing some five-star hotels to operate at half capacity despite strong visitor numbers from Hong Kong and other regions. The situation highlights a critical supply-side challenge for the city's tourism and integrated resort sector.","focusai_entities":"Billy Song, Macau Responsible Gaming Association, Bloomberg, Melco","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR Projections?","query":"How will the persistent labor shortage in Macau impact GGR growth projections for integrated resorts over the next 12-24 months, considering current demand trends?"},{"label":"Regulatory Response to Labor?","query":"What specific policy interventions or immigration reforms are Macau authorities considering to address the structural labor deficit in the hospitality and gaming sectors?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777004124","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\/777004124","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=777004124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777004158,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004124\/revisions\/777004158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}