{"id":777009107,"date":"2023-09-11T08:29:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777009107"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:12:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:12:44","slug":"macau-expects-80000-to-90000-daily-visitors-during-october-golden-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-expects-80000-to-90000-daily-visitors-during-october-golden-week","title":{"rendered":"Macau expects 80,000 to 90,000 daily visitors during October Golden Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The October Golden Week will take place from September 29 to October 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, the director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), expects to see a daily influx of 80,000 to 90,000 visitors during this year&#8217;s October Golden Week Holiday, from September 29 to October 6 inclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She noted that the peak of visitor arrivals in Macau in previous years occurred during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day. However, she said that this year surpassing figures from August will be challenging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August witnessed a daily average of over 100,000 visitors to Macau, with hotel occupancy rates exceeding 90 per cent. However, as the summer holiday period ended in mainland China and other feeder markets, the\u00a0daily average visitor dipped to 60,000 &#8211; 70,000 in September. In 2022, some\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-received-182000-visitors-during-october-golden-week\" target=\"_blank\">182,000 visitors arrived<\/a> during the October Golden Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De Senna Fernandes highlighted that the bureau was aiming to attract tourists from international markets through incentives and subsidies while discontinuing discount schemes for mainland Chinese visitors as Macau aims to diversify its tourist base and reduce dependence on a single market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-686-4-in-august\" target=\"_blank\">Macau GGR up 686.4% in August<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The October Golden Week will take place from September 29 to October 6.<\/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":"The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) anticipates 80,000-90,000 daily visitors during the upcoming October Golden Week, a figure below August's peak but above September's average. Concurrently, Macau is strategically diversifying its tourism base by attracting international visitors with incentives while discontinuing discount schemes for mainland Chinese tourists, aiming to reduce market dependency.","focusai_entities":"Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Macao Government Tourism Office, MGTO","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.85), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR impact of the revised visitor forecasts and market diversification strategy for Macau's integrated resorts, considering the shift from mainland Chinese discounts?"},{"label":"Competitive Landscape Shift","query":"How will the discontinuation of mainland Chinese visitor discounts affect the competitive landscape and B2C player acquisition strategies among Macau's gaming concessionaires?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777009107","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\/777009107","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=777009107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777009135,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009107\/revisions\/777009135"}],"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=777009107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777009107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777009107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}