{"id":777009868,"date":"2023-10-04T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T09:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777009868"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:28:39","slug":"macau-receives-over-560000-tourists-in-first-four-days-of-golden-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-receives-over-560000-tourists-in-first-four-days-of-golden-week","title":{"rendered":"Macau receives over 560,000 tourists in first four days of Golden Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Numbers have exceeded the tourism authorities&#8217; estimate of 100,000 visitors per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The Public Security Police Force (CPSP) has reported that 124,552 tourists arrived in Macau on the fourth day of the Golden Week holiday, contributing to an overall count of 566,367 visitors since Saturday (September 30).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daily arrivals have declined since September 30, the first day of the Mid-Autumn holiday and National Day Golden Week, which saw 158,633 arrivals &#8211; the highest figure in four years. Sunday saw 149,940 visitors and Monday 133,359.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The daily average visitation stands at 141,592, surpassing the tourism\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-hoteliers-optimistic-about-golden-week-holiday\" target=\"_blank\">authorities&#8217; estimate of 100,000 daily visitors<\/a>. Golden Week runs until October 6. Morgan Stanley Asia\u00a0forecasts that\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-golden-week-ggr-to-be-17-higher-than-rest-of-the-month\" target=\"_blank\">Macau&#8217;s gross gaming revenue (GGR) during the holiday period<\/a>\u00a0could be\u00a0approximately 17 per cent higher\u00a0than for the rest of October.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numbers have exceeded the tourism authorities&#8217; estimate of 100,000 visitors per day.<\/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's Golden Week holiday has seen tourist arrivals significantly exceed official estimates, with a daily average of 141,592 visitors surpassing the 100,000 projection. This robust visitation, including the highest single-day figure in four years, prompts Morgan Stanley Asia to forecast a 17% higher Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for the holiday period compared to the rest of October.","focusai_entities":"Public Security Police Force (CPSP), Morgan Stanley Asia","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Forecast Accuracy","query":"What specific methodologies or data points beyond raw visitation numbers did Morgan Stanley Asia utilize to project a 17% GGR uplift for Golden Week relative to the rest of October?"},{"label":"Operational Capacity Impact","query":"How are Macau's integrated resort operators managing the increased operational demands, including staffing, table game availability, and non-gaming amenities, given the higher-than-anticipated visitor volumes?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777009868","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\/777009868","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=777009868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777041205,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009868\/revisions\/777041205"}],"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=777009868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777009868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777009868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}