{"id":777011342,"date":"2023-11-22T06:46:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T09:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777011342"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:22:57","slug":"macau-mgto-says-subsidy-schemes-led-to-us154-2m-in-bookings-in-first-10-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-mgto-says-subsidy-schemes-led-to-us154-2m-in-bookings-in-first-10-months","title":{"rendered":"Macau: MGTO says subsidy schemes led to US$154.2m in bookings in first 10 months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The schemed resulted in more than 994,000 hotel stays in the first ten months of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has said that a campaign offering hotel discounts to visitors from mainland China and overseas generated bookings worth CNY1.1bn (US$154.2m) in the first 10 months of 2023. That resulted in more than 994,000 hotel stays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The My Treat for You, Joyful Macao Tour subsidy scheme, focusing on flight ticket discounts, generated approximately 106,000 bookings valued at MOP153m (US$19.0m) up to October 31.&nbsp;The MGTO reported receiving subsidy requests from 14,532 tour groups involving more than 391,000 people between February 2 and October 31. The majority, around 13,635 tours, originated from mainland China, while 897 were from Taiwan or elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city&#8217;s authorities organised\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-week-in-fujian-draws-nearly-600000-visitors\" target=\"_blank\">multiple &#8220;Macao Week&#8221; promotional events in mainland China<\/a>\u00a0to promote Macau in 2023. These attracted over 2.9 million attendees and provided CNY127m in discounts for various tourism-related services.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the MGTO&#8217;s Experience Macau, Unlimited campaign drew over 300,000 visitors, and events in Guangdong, Macau&#8217;s attracted over 2.4 million attendees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Macau visitor arrivals up 375.1 per cent year-on-year in October<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)&nbsp;has reported that Macau received&nbsp;2,757,308 visitors in October. The figure represents an increase of 19.8 per cent&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-312-5-per-cent-year-on-year-in-september\" target=\"_blank\">when compared to the previous month<\/a>&nbsp;and a rise of 375.1 per cent on year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the first ten months of 2023, Macau has seen a 358.8 per cent year-on-year growth in visitor arrivals to 22,685,476.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The schemed resulted in more than 994,000 hotel stays in the first ten months of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26542,"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 government-led tourism campaigns, offering significant hotel and flight discounts, generated CNY1.1bn (US$154.2m) in bookings and over 994,000 hotel stays in the first ten months of 2023. These initiatives, primarily targeting mainland Chinese visitors, contributed to a 358.8% year-on-year growth in visitor arrivals, reaching 22.68 million by October.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Taiwan, Guangdong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Uplift Projection?","query":"What is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) uplift for Macau's concessionaires, considering the reported 358.8% year-on-year visitor arrival growth and the efficacy of the MGTO's promotional campaigns?"},{"label":"Sustainability of Growth?","query":"Given the reliance on promotional subsidies, what is the long-term sustainability of Macau's tourism growth trajectory, and what are the plans for transitioning to organic demand drivers?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777011342","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\/777011342","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=777011342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777040923,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011342\/revisions\/777040923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777011342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777011342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777011342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}