{"id":777005312,"date":"2023-05-17T13:20:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T16:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777005312"},"modified":"2026-04-22T21:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:55:20","slug":"macau-attracted-over-7-92-million-visitors-between-january-and-may-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-attracted-over-7-92-million-visitors-between-january-and-may-10","title":{"rendered":"Macau attracted over 7.92 million visitors between January and May 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The number of visitors to Macau this year has already exceeded last year&#8217;s total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-&nbsp;<strong>The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO)&nbsp;<\/strong>has reported that the city received <strong>over 7.92 million visitors from January to May 10<\/strong>. An estimated 5.11 million visitors arrived from mainland China, solidifying the region&#8217;s significance as a major feeder market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mainland China accounted for nearly 65.4 per cent of all visitor arrivals&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-records-nearly-5m-visitor-arrivals-in-q1\" target=\"_blank\">during the first quarter of 2023<\/a> with 3.24 million tourists. In April alone, 2.29 million visitors arrived in Macau, with 1.39 million from China. In the first 10 days of May, the city received more than 690,000 visitor arrivals, of which nearly 70 per cent \u2013 or more than 480,000 arrivals \u2013 were from the Chinese mainland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The growth in visitor arrivals is due to the easing of Covid-19-related restrictions in Macau and mainland China earlier this year.&nbsp;Macau\u2019s visitor arrivals in 2022 were the lowest since 1999 at only <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-down-26-in-2022\" target=\"_blank\">5.70m<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of visitors to Macau this year has already exceeded last year&#8217;s total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":11695,"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's visitor arrivals from January to May 10 have surpassed the total for the entirety of 2022, reaching over 7.92 million, primarily driven by mainland China tourists. This significant rebound, with mainland China accounting for a substantial majority of visitors, is attributed to the recent easing of Covid-19 restrictions. The recovery indicates a positive trajectory for the region's gaming and tourism sectors.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO)","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Projected GGR Impact?","query":"What is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) impact for Macau's concessionaires given this accelerated visitor volume and demographic composition?"},{"label":"Non-Gaming Revenue Strategy?","query":"How do current visitor demographics, particularly the dominance of mainland China, influence Macau's integrated resorts' non-gaming revenue diversification strategies and capital expenditure plans?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777005312","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\/777005312","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=777005312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777005312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777005348,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777005312\/revisions\/777005348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777005312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777005312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777005312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}