{"id":777008165,"date":"2023-08-14T05:32:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T08:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777008165"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:07:10","slug":"macau-was-chinas-favourite-outbound-destination-for-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-was-chinas-favourite-outbound-destination-for-h1","title":{"rendered":"Macau was China&#8217;s favourite outbound destination for H1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trips to Macau accounted for nearly half of all outbound trips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-\u00a0The China Tourism Academy\u00a0has published its Big Data Report on Outbound Tourism in the First Half of 2023. It shows that Macau was the top preference for outbound tourists, accounting for nearly half of the 40.37 million trips undertaken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan collectively accounted for 80 per cent of outbound visits. The cumulative number of visitor arrivals\u00a0in Macau <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. That&#8217;s 59.6 per cent of 2019 figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rise is attributed to the ease of travel arrangements as reports obtaining visas for other popular destinations becomes more difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Macau SAR government has been working to diversify the economy and attract more overseas tourists, engaging in collaboration with airlines, e-commerce platforms, and online travel agencies. In the first half, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-reaches-us400m-in-first-six-days-of-august\" target=\"_blank\">the city&#8217;s total gross gaming revenue<\/a>\u00a0was MOP96.8bn (US$12bn), 61 per cent of the government&#8217;s full-year projection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-airport-traffic-recovers-to-60-of-pre-pandemic-levels\" target=\"_blank\">Macau airport traffic recovers to 60% of pre-pandemic levels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trips to Macau accounted for nearly half of all outbound trips.<\/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's tourism sector experienced a significant recovery in H1 2023, attracting nearly half of all Chinese outbound trips and achieving MOP96.8bn (US$12bn) in Gross Gaming Revenue. This resurgence, driven by eased travel arrangements, positions the Macau SAR government to advance its economic diversification agenda and attract a broader international visitor base.","focusai_entities":"China Tourism Academy, Macau SAR government","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau GGR Recovery Outlook?","query":"What is the projected timeline for Macau's GGR to fully recover to 2019 levels, considering the current H1 performance and ongoing travel facilitation challenges?"},{"label":"Diversification Impact on Operators?","query":"How will the Macau SAR government's economic diversification strategy impact the long-term GGR composition and the operational strategies of integrated resort concessionaires?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777008165","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\/777008165","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=777008165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777008165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008169,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777008165\/revisions\/777008169"}],"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=777008165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777008165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777008165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}