{"id":777004582,"date":"2023-04-24T09:23:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T12:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777004582"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:36:58","slug":"macau-visitor-arrivals-up-271-4-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-271-4-in-march","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitor arrivals up 271.4% in March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Macau has reported over 1.9m visitor arrivals for the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) <\/strong>has reported that a total of 1,956,867 visitors arrived in Macau in March. That\u2019s an increase of 271.4 per cent when compared to last year and 22.8 per cent on month-on-month terms<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities reported overnight tourists and same-day tourists increased by 522.7 per cent and 164.5 per cent year-on-year respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The average stay of tourists was 1.2 days. Overnight visitors decreased by 1.4 days to 2.2 days compared with the previous year, while day visitors increased by 0.2 days to 0.3 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mainland Chinese visitors grew by 64.9 per cent in year-on-year terms to 1,242,358. Visitors from the Greater Bay Area increased by 79.0 per cent year-on-year to 563,083. Hong Kong and Taiwan also grew by 1077.2 per cent and 447.5% year-on-year respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tourist arrivals by land amounted to 1,557,561, a year-on-year increase of 208.1 per cent, most of whom entered via border crossings and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of sea and air passengers also increased by 4866.4 per cent and 723.6 per cent year-on-year respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first quarter of 2023, the number of visiting tourists increased by 163.7 per cent year-on-year to 4,948,358<\/a>. Same-day visitors rose 93.1 per cent year-on-year, while overnight visitors increased by 287.6 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The average stay of tourists was 1.3 days, the same as that of the same period last year, of which overnight tourists decreased by 1.1 days to 2.3 days, and day tourists increased by 0.2 days to 0.3 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Macau has reported over 1.9m visitor arrivals for the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26708,"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 a substantial increase in visitor arrivals for March and Q1 2023, with March seeing 1.96 million visitors, a 271.4% year-on-year surge. This robust recovery, driven by Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong, and Taiwan visitors, signals a strong rebound in tourism, directly impacting the region's gaming revenue potential and operational outlook for casino concessionaires.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, Mainland China, Greater Bay Area, Hong Kong, Taiwan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Q2 2023","query":"Given the significant year-on-year and month-on-month increases in visitor arrivals, what are the revised GGR projections for Macau's gaming concessionaires for Q2 2023, and how does this compare to pre-pandemic levels?"},{"label":"Operational Strategy Adjustments","query":"How are Macau's integrated resort operators recalibrating their staffing, marketing spend, and non-gaming amenity activation strategies to optimize yield per visitor amidst this rapid recovery?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777004582","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\/777004582","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=777004582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777004584,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004582\/revisions\/777004584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}