{"id":777006576,"date":"2023-06-23T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T13:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777006576"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:42:38","slug":"macau-hotel-occupancy-to-exceed-80-during-dragon-boat-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-hotel-occupancy-to-exceed-80-during-dragon-boat-festival","title":{"rendered":"Macau hotel occupancy to exceed 80% during Dragon Boat Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The president of the Macau Tourism Industry Association has highlighted an increase in bookings and rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The president of the Macau Tourism Industry Association, <strong>Andy Wu<\/strong>, has made optimistic projections for hotel occupancy rates during Macau&#8217;s ongoing <strong>Dragon Boat Festival<\/strong>. He said occupancy <strong>could exceed 80 per cent<\/strong> during the event from June 22 to 25,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement to local media, Wu said hotel bookings and room rates are higher compared to typical weekends. Thursday (June 22) is a public holiday in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau, but China grants holidays for June 23 and 24 as well, fueling demand for short-haul travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau&#8217;s hotel rates are up. Four-star hotels are charging up to MOP2,000 (US$250) per night and integrated resorts&#8217; hotels up to MOP3,000 (US$372) per room.&nbsp;The initial indicators for the Dragon Boat Festival are promising, as <strong>Macau welcomed 96,305 tourists on the first day<\/strong>, surpassing the forecast 70,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)&nbsp;<\/strong>reported that 2,213,807 visitors arrived in Macau <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-268-5-in-may\" target=\"_blank\">In May<\/a>. That\u2019s an increase of 268.5 per cent when compared to last year and represented 65 per cent of tourist arrivals in May 2019, prior to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Macau Tourism Industry Association has highlighted an increase in bookings and rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25493,"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 tourism sector is demonstrating robust recovery, with the Macau Tourism Industry Association projecting over 80% hotel occupancy during the Dragon Boat Festival. This surge is supported by increased bookings, higher room rates, and significant tourist arrivals in May, surpassing last year's figures and approaching pre-pandemic levels.","focusai_entities":"Andy Wu, Macau Tourism Industry Association, Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR?","query":"What is the projected impact of these increased tourist arrivals and hotel occupancies on Macau's Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for Q2 and Q3, particularly from the mass market segment?"},{"label":"Sustainability of recovery?","query":"What are the long-term projections for Macau's tourism recovery, and what governance frameworks are being considered to sustain this growth beyond holiday periods?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777006576","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\/777006576","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=777006576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777006576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777006607,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777006576\/revisions\/777006607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777006576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777006576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777006576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}