{"id":777007451,"date":"2023-07-20T06:50:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T09:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777007451"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:50:18","slug":"macau-visitor-arrivals-up-480-5-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-480-5-in-june","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitor arrivals up 480.5% in June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some 2,209,662 people visited Macau in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The\u00a0Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)\u00a0<\/strong>has reported that Macau received 2,209,662 visitors in June. The figure represents an increase of 480.5 per cent when compared to June 2022 but a decline of 0.2 per cent\u00a0in month-on-month terms<\/a>. It also represents a recovery to 71.4 per cent of the visitor numbers in May 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the visitors, 1,444,933\u00a0came from mainland China<\/strong>, a year-on-year increase of 329.4 per cent. Numbers travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme rose by 487.9 per cent.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of visitors from Hong Kong rose by 1,446.9 per cent to 601,663, making up 27 per cent of total visitors. Some 42,964 came from Taiwan. Only 5.4 per cent of June’s visitors came from outside the Greater China region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cumulative number of visitor arrivals\u00a0in the first half of the year<\/a>\u00a0grew 236.1 per cent year-on-year to 11,645,877.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau casinos form working group to promote MICE tourism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The six casino operators in Macau have formed a working group in partnership with five local trade associations to promote international and regional-level Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE)<\/strong> tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The initiative, as revealed in a press release from Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), aims to draw a wider array of MICE activities that align with key industries the Macau government seeks to develop beyond tourism and high-stakes gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some 2,209,662 people visited Macau in June.<\/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 2,209,662 visitors in June, marking a 480.5% year-on-year increase and a 71.4% recovery to pre-pandemic levels, though a slight month-on-month decline. Concurrently, Macau's six casino operators have partnered with local trade associations to form a working group aimed at promoting MICE tourism, aligning with the government's economic diversification strategy beyond traditional gaming verticals.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM)","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (0.98), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"MICE Diversification Impact","query":"What specific governance frameworks and capital expenditure allocations are Macau's integrated resort operators planning to support the MICE tourism diversification strategy, and what are the projected non-gaming revenue contributions?"},{"label":"GGR Recovery Trajectory","query":"Given the current visitor recovery rate of 71.4% of pre-pandemic levels, what are the revised GGR forecasts for Macau's gaming verticals for H2 2023, factoring in the slight month-on-month decline and the composition of visitor origins?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777007451","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\/777007451","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=777007451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777007451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777007479,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777007451\/revisions\/777007479"}],"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=777007451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777007451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777007451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}