{"id":777012753,"date":"2024-01-30T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777012753"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:33:19","slug":"mgto-to-offer-free-tickets-for-bus-and-ferry-services-from-hk-to-macau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/mgto-to-offer-free-tickets-for-bus-and-ferry-services-from-hk-to-macau","title":{"rendered":"MGTO to offer free tickets for bus and ferry services from HK to Macau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Limited numbers of free tickets will be available for overseas visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has announced that from February 1, international travellers arriving at Hong Kong International Airport can get free bus and ferry tickets to Macau.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This offer is for international tourists from outside of Greater China, and the limited number of tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Travellers will need to show valid travel documents and boarding passes in the airport’s restricted area.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The promotion will run until August 31 for bus tickets and July 31 for ferry tickets. The latter must be booked seven days in advance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MGTO is also planning to introduce promotional package tours tailored for overseas tourist travel on a cruise ship docking off Hong Kong, this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Macau government has a budget of MOP235m (US$29.2m) to expand Macau\u2019s international visitor market in 2024. The director of\u00a0the MGTO<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/a>, has stated that\u00a0the city expects to attract 33 million visitors this year<\/a>, including around\u00a03 million<\/a> tourists from outside of Greater China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MGTO is also working with Macau’s flagship airline, Air Macau, to release low-priced tickets. This initiative covers all international destinations serviced by Macau Airlines, except mainland China and Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city received 28.23 million travellers in 2023<\/a>, 71 per cent of the 2019 pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Limited numbers of free tickets will be available for overseas visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26451,"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) has initiated a promotional campaign offering free bus and ferry tickets to Macau for international travelers arriving at Hong Kong International Airport, commencing February 1. This MOP235m (US$29.2m) investment aims to attract 3 million international visitors in 2024, significantly bolstering the region's tourism and, by extension, its gaming sector. Concurrently, MGTO is collaborating with Air Macau to introduce low-priced international flight tickets.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Air Macau","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact","query":"What is the projected incremental Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) impact for Macau's integrated resorts stemming from the anticipated 3 million additional international visitors in 2024?"},{"label":"Market Diversification","query":"How does this MOP235m tourism promotion budget align with Macau's long-term strategy for market diversification beyond traditional Greater China visitation?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777012753","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\/777012753","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=777012753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012756,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012753\/revisions\/777012756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777012753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}