{"id":777008006,"date":"2023-08-08T08:28:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777008006"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:16:39","slug":"macau-airport-traffic-recovers-to-60-of-pre-pandemic-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-airport-traffic-recovers-to-60-of-pre-pandemic-levels","title":{"rendered":"Macau airport traffic recovers to 60% of pre-pandemic levels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities reported the Macau International Airport saw over 551,000 passengers in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- <strong>CAM<\/strong>, the operator of <strong>Macau&#8217;s international airport<\/strong>, has reported that 551,000 passengers used the airport in July. That represents a 60 per cent recovery when measured against pre-pandemic figures from 2019.\u00a0The airport handled more than 4,000 aircraft movements, 58 per cent of pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mainland China accounted for 53 per cent of the airport&#8217;s passenger volume while international routes accounted for 29 per cent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cumulative number of visitor arrivals\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-tourism-recovered-to-59-6-of-2019-levels-in-h1\" target=\"_blank\">in the first half of the year<\/a>\u00a0grew 236.1 per cent year-on-year to 11,645,877.\u00a0<strong>Cheng Wai Tong<\/strong>, deputy director of\u00a0<strong>the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO)<\/strong>\u00a0has forecast that\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-records-nearly-5m-visitor-arrivals-in-q1\" target=\"_blank\">daily visitor numbers in August<\/a>\u00a0will surpass the 89,000 average seen in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities reported the Macau International Airport saw over 551,000 passengers in July.<\/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":"Macau International Airport reported a significant recovery in July passenger traffic, reaching 60% of pre-pandemic levels, with Mainland China contributing over half of the volume. This surge, coupled with a 236.1% year-on-year increase in H1 visitor arrivals, signals a robust rebound in Macau's tourism sector. This trend is a critical indicator for the region's gaming industry, impacting GGR projections and operational strategies for integrated resort concessionaires.","focusai_entities":"CAM, Macao Government Tourism Office, Cheng Wai Tong","focusai_location":"Macau, Mainland China","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":"GGR Impact","query":"How does the sustained recovery in Macau's visitor arrivals, particularly the mix of Mainland China versus international passengers, translate into revised GGR forecasts for integrated resort operators in Q3 and Q4?"},{"label":"Operational Scaling","query":"What are the immediate operational scaling implications for Macau's concessionaires, including staffing, marketing spend, and non-gaming amenity activation, given the accelerated visitor volume?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777008006","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\/777008006","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=777008006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777008006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008017,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777008006\/revisions\/777008017"}],"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=777008006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777008006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777008006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}