{"id":777012157,"date":"2024-01-02T08:42:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T11:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777012157"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:25:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:25:37","slug":"macau-received-28-million-visitors-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-received-28-million-visitors-in-2023","title":{"rendered":"Macau received 28 million visitors in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Visitor numbers reached 70 per cent of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-<strong>\u00a0The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO)<\/strong>\u00a0has reported that Macau registered 28m visitor arrivals in 2023, with a daily average of circa 77,000 tourists. This figure was equivalent to 70 per cent of pre-pandemic 2019 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In December, the city received 2.96 million visitors and set a post-pandemic daily record of 175,030 visitors on New Year&#8217;s Eve. For December 26-30, 2023, the daily average number of international visitors exceeded 10,000 for five consecutive days, reaching 93 per cent of the daily peak of 12,104 visitors in December 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary data indicates that the pace of recovery in daily international visitor numbers increased from 10.1 per cent in January 2023 to 94.4 per cent in December 2023. In 2022,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-down-26-in-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the city saw 5.70m visitor arrivals<\/a>, lower than even the 5.9m registered in 2020 due to travel restrictions resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lei Wai Nong<\/strong>, Macau\u2019s secretary for economy and finance, had announced that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-full-year-visitor-numbers-expected-to-reach-28-million\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the city had received over 25 million tourists<\/a>\u00a0in the 11 months to the end of November and was confident that the tally would reach 28 million by the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitor numbers reached 70 per cent of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":22428,"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 28 million visitor arrivals in 2023, achieving 70% of pre-pandemic 2019 levels, with December setting a post-pandemic daily record of 175,030 visitors on New Year\u2019s Eve. The recovery of international visitor numbers accelerated significantly throughout the year, from 10.1% in January to 94.4% in December, indicating a robust rebound in the tourism sector.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, Lei Wai Nong","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.85), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.75), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Q1 2024","query":"Given the 70% recovery in visitor numbers and the acceleration of international arrivals, what is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) impact for Macau's concessionaires in Q1 2024, particularly concerning the VIP and mass market segments?"},{"label":"International Visitor Strategy","query":"How does the significant acceleration in international visitor recovery, reaching 94.4% by December 2023, influence the strategic capital expenditure and marketing initiatives of integrated resort operators targeting non-mainland Chinese segments?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23907,23906],"class_list":["post-777012157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-land-based-casino","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012157","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=777012157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012177,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012157\/revisions\/777012177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777012157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}