{"id":777005575,"date":"2023-05-24T13:50:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777005575"},"modified":"2026-04-22T21:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:41:03","slug":"chinese-domestic-tourists-spending-less-per-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-domestic-tourists-spending-less-per-trip","title":{"rendered":"Chinese domestic tourists spending less per trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Analysts at Fitch have reported that spending per trip was down as the number of trips increased over Labour Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>China.- Fitch Ratings has reported that <strong>Chinese spending per trip<\/strong> in the domestic tourism sector was down against 2019 during the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-received-491968-visitors-during-labour-day-holiday\" target=\"_blank\">recent Labour Day holiday<\/a>. The number of trips surpassed 2019 levels, driven by pent-up demand and limited outbound air travel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average spend per trip was down by 10 per cent compared to pre-pandemic levels in 2019. Fitch attributed this to <strong>a rise in low-income travellers due to previous travel restrictions<\/strong>, increased visits to lower-tier cities and rural areas as well as higher costs of accommodations and airfares in certain regions. Spending per domestic trip for Q1 as a whole surpassed 2019 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stability of the domestic tourism industry can be attributed to <strong>the strong desire of Chinese consumers to travel<\/strong>&nbsp;after experiencing years of limited mobility. Furthermore, the slow recovery of outbound flights encouraged more people to explore domestic destinations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fitch analysts predicted that&nbsp;international air traffic will not reach 80 per cent of pre-pandemic levels&nbsp;until the fourth quarter of 2023, further boosting the domestic tourism sector.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Labour Day holiday, China&#8217;s domestic travellers exceeded 120 per cent of pre-Covid levels, reaching 274 million, and domestic tourism revenue hit RMB148.1bn (US$21.4bn), a year-on-year increase of 128.9 per cent, according to <strong>the ministry of Culture and Tourism, from China\u2019s central government<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trend of lower per-capita spending was also observed&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-tourism-to-hit-pre-pandemic-levels-this-summer\" target=\"_blank\">in Macau<\/a>. Visitor spending, excluding gaming expenses, rose 127.1 per cent in the first quarter to US$1.86bn. However, the per-capita spending fell 13.9 per cent to MOP3,027 (US$376).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts at Fitch have reported that spending per trip was down as the number of trips increased over Labour Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Fitch Ratings reports that while China's domestic tourism trips surpassed pre-pandemic levels during Labour Day, per-trip spending declined due to shifts in traveller demographics and destination choices. This trend, also observed in Macau with a 13.9% drop in per-capita visitor spending (excluding gaming), suggests a recovery driven by volume rather than high-value individual expenditure, impacting the GGR outlook for integrated resorts.","focusai_entities":"Fitch, Fitch Ratings, Ministry of Culture and Tourism","focusai_location":"China, Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau GGR Impact","query":"How will the observed decline in per-capita visitor spending in Macau, coupled with increased visitor volume, specifically impact the GGR and NGR projections for integrated resort operators in the upcoming fiscal quarters?"},{"label":"Operator Strategy Shift","query":"What strategic adjustments are Macau-based integrated resort operators implementing in their B2C marketing, loyalty programs, and non-gaming amenities to adapt to the influx of lower-tier travellers and the reduced per-capita expenditure?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777005575","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\/777005575","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=777005575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777005575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777005600,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777005575\/revisions\/777005600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777005575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777005575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777005575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}