{"id":777004132,"date":"2023-04-10T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777004132"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:02:00","slug":"macau-records-nearly-5m-visitor-arrivals-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-records-nearly-5m-visitor-arrivals-in-q1","title":{"rendered":"Macau records nearly 5m visitor arrivals in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), almost a third of arrivals were from Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has announced that Macau received over 4.96m visitors in the first quarter of 2023. It says 1.5 million of them were from Hong Kong, a nearly tenfold surge from last year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MGTO announced the figures while revealing a second round of <strong>subsidies for Hong Kong residents<\/strong> travelling to Macau. The &#8220;Macao Treat&#8221; initiative offers &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-extends-travel-incentives-for-hong-kong-residents\" target=\"_blank\">buy-one-get-one-free<\/a>&#8221; on bus or ferry tickets for travel to Macau. Visitors must stay at least one night and use a participating bus or ferry service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second phase of the initiative, to run from April 10 to June 30, will be extended to cover people visiting Macau from Taiwan and those transiting via Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the first phase from January 13 to March 31, 45,657 ferry or bus journeys were taken under the offer, amounting to about 3 per cent of the first-quarter total aggregate of visitor arrivals to Macau. The number of tickets issued was around 100,000 for ferry services and 45,000 for bus services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Macau International Airport has reported 1.7-times year-on-year growth in passenger journeys in the first quarter, with over 750,000 passengers recorded. There was a 57 per cent year-on-year improvement in flight movements, with over 6,900 flights. The daily average passenger traffic was around 10,000, and there were approximately 100 daily flight movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Macau government has <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-to-spend-us74-2m-on-boosting-inbound-tourism\" target=\"_blank\">budgeted around MOP600m (US$74.2m) this year<\/a>&nbsp;to stimulate inbound tourism, including via consumer roadshows on the Chinese mainland and overseas and subsidised promotions on certain tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), almost a third of arrivals were from Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26697,"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 recorded over 4.96 million visitors in Q1 2023, with a significant surge from Hong Kong, driven by the Macao Government Tourism Office's \"Macao Treat\" subsidy program. This initiative, offering travel ticket promotions, is being expanded to include visitors from Taiwan and those transiting via Hong Kong. Concurrently, Macau International Airport reported substantial year-on-year growth in passenger traffic and flight movements, supported by a MOP600 million government budget for tourism stimulation.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, Macau International Airport","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Chinese mainland","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Q1 Surge?","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's concessionaires resulting from the Q1 visitor surge and ongoing tourism subsidies?"},{"label":"Q1 vs Pre-Pandemic?","query":"How do these Q1 2023 visitor volumes and growth rates benchmark against pre-pandemic Q1 2019 figures, and what is the revised full-year recovery forecast?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777004132","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\/777004132","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=777004132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777004160,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004132\/revisions\/777004160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}