{"id":777004169,"date":"2023-04-11T08:43:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T11:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777004169"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:59:17","slug":"macau-receives-over-480000-visitors-during-easter-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-receives-over-480000-visitors-during-easter-week","title":{"rendered":"Macau receives over 480,000 visitors during Easter week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau welcomed 481,765 visitors between April 5 and April 10 inclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Authorities have reported that<strong> 481,765 visitors arrived in Macau<\/strong> during the six-day period from April 5 to April 10, which included the Chinese festival of Ching Ming and the Easter holidays. According to data from the city&#8217;s Public Security Police, the daily average for the six-day period was just over 80,000 visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police data show that the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge boundary checkpoint served just under 40 per cent of all visitor arrivals during the six-day period, while the border gate serving neighbouring Zhuhai in mainland China&#8217;s Guangdong province, handled 136,076 visitor arrivals, just over 28 per cent of the total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) recently reported that&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-records-nearly-5m-visitor-arrivals-in-q1\" target=\"_blank\">Macau received over 4.96m visitors<\/a>&nbsp;in the first quarter of 2023. It said 1.5 million of them were from Hong Kong, a nearly tenfold increase from last year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Macau government has&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-to-spend-us74-2m-on-boosting-inbound-tourism\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">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>Macau welcomed 481,765 visitors between April 5 and April 10 inclusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25802,"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 481,765 visitors during the six-day Ching Ming and Easter holiday period, averaging over 80,000 daily. This follows a robust Q1 2023 with 4.96 million visitors, including a significant increase from Hong Kong, supported by a MOP600 million government budget to stimulate inbound tourism.","focusai_entities":"Public Security Police, Macao Government Tourism Office, MGTO","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong, Zhuhai, Guangdong, 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 Analysis?","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's concessionaires in Q2 2023, considering these robust visitor arrival figures and the MOP600m tourism stimulus budget?"},{"label":"Sustainability of Recovery?","query":"Beyond holiday periods, what are the long-term projections for Macau's visitor arrivals, and how sustainable is the current recovery trend given the reliance on mainland Chinese and Hong Kong tourism?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777004169","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\/777004169","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=777004169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777004211,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004169\/revisions\/777004211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}