{"id":777008233,"date":"2023-08-15T07:10:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777008233"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:04:27","slug":"macau-receives-139000-visitors-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-receives-139000-visitors-in-one-day","title":{"rendered":"Macau receives 139,000 visitors in one day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau recorded its highest single-day visitor tally since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic on Saturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has reported that<strong> 139,000 tourists entered the city on Saturday (August 12). <\/strong>It&#8217;s the highest single-day figure since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of visitors led authorities to implement traffic controls in downtown areas like Senado Square. From January to July, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-tourism-recovered-to-59-6-of-2019-levels-in-h1\" target=\"_blank\">14.42 million people visited Macau<\/a>, averaging 68,000 arrivals per day. This figure represents approximately 63 per cent of the daily average in the pre-pandemic year of 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average hotel occupancy for the first seven months of the year was 83 per cent, which compares to 90.8 per cent in 2019. However, from August 4 to 10, occupancy was 94 per cent. Visitors from beyond China have climbed from an average <strong>10.1 per cent of 2019 arrivals in January to <\/strong>17.9 per cent in February, 21.1 per cent in March and 43.2 per cent in June.\u00a0Last month, the daily average of international visitors was 4,201, about 56.8 per cent of that seen in July 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-was-chinas-favourite-outbound-destination-for-h1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau was China\u2019s favourite outbound destination for H1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau recorded its highest single-day visitor tally since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic on Saturday<\/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 recorded its highest single-day visitor tally since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic on August 12, with 139,000 tourists. This surge, coupled with improving hotel occupancy rates and a growing proportion of international visitors, signals a robust recovery trajectory for the region's tourism and gaming verticals, although overall figures remain below pre-pandemic levels.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's concessionaires given the reported visitor volume and hotel occupancy rates, particularly considering the evolving mix of domestic versus international arrivals?"},{"label":"Operational Capacity Assessment","query":"How are Macau's integrated resorts scaling their operational capacity, including staffing, gaming floor activation, and non-gaming amenities, to meet the demands of this accelerating visitor recovery?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777008233","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\/777008233","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=777008233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777008233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008236,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777008233\/revisions\/777008236"}],"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=777008233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777008233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777008233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}