{"id":777009426,"date":"2023-09-20T06:34:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T09:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777009426"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:54:28","slug":"macau-visitor-arrivals-up-16-7-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-16-7-in-august","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitor arrivals up 16.7% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau received 3,221,691 visitors during the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The\u00a0Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)\u00a0has reported that Macau received 3,221,691 visitors visitors in August. The figure represents an increase of 16.7 per cent\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-24-5-in-july\" target=\"_blank\">when compared to the previous month<\/a>\u00a0and is the highest figure since August 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 1,653,866 same-day visitors, more than 51 per cent of the total. On average, overnight visitors stayed for 2.2 days, down from 2.3 days in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of visitors, 2.32 million or approximately 72 per cent, were from mainland China. Hong Kong and Taiwan contributed 711,684 and 58,104 visitors, respectively. International visitor arrivals accounted for 4 per cent of all arrivals at 129,323.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau&#8217;s government has been encouraging casino operators to diversify their customer base beyond the Chinese market. Under the tender process for new 10-year gaming concessions, bidders were required to formulate plans and commit to investments aimed at attracting more international customers. Mainland China and Hong Kong constituted nearly 90 per cent of the 39.4 million visitor arrivals in 2019. The government wants international arrivals to reach around 10 per cent of total visitor volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first eight months of 2023,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-top-17-6m-in-first-8-months-of-2023\" target=\"_blank\">Macau has reported a 363.1 per cent year-on-year growth in visitor arrivals<\/a>, totalling nearly 17.63 million. Of these arrivals, 733,588 or 4.2 per cent came from overseas markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/mgto-expects-over-100000-daily-visitors-for-october-golden-week\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MGTO expects over 100,000 daily visitors for October Golden Week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau received 3,221,691 visitors during the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18522,"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 3.22 million visitors in August, a 16.7% M-o-M increase and the highest since August 2019, with mainland China comprising 72%. This surge, alongside 363.1% Y-o-Y growth in the first eight months, underscores the market's recovery trajectory. The government's strategic push for casino operators to diversify their customer base, particularly attracting international visitors to reach 10% of total volume, remains a key mandate tied to new gaming concessions.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), Macau government","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Diversification Progress","query":"What specific metrics beyond visitor volume are the Macau government and concessionaires tracking to assess the efficacy of international market diversification strategies, particularly concerning GGR contribution from non-mainland visitors?"},{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"How do the current visitor demographics and average length of stay translate into projected GGR growth for Macau's gaming operators, especially considering the emphasis on non-gaming revenue diversification within the new concession frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777009426","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\/777009426","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=777009426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777041289,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009426\/revisions\/777041289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777009426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777009426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777009426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}