{"id":777013110,"date":"2024-02-13T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777013110"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:04:32","slug":"macau-records-217448-tourist-arrivals-on-third-day-of-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-records-217448-tourist-arrivals-on-third-day-of-chinese-new-year","title":{"rendered":"Macau records 217,448 tourist arrivals on third day of Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was the highest single-day visitation tally in five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Authorities have reported that\u00a0<strong>Macau received 217,448<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>tourists\u00a0<\/strong>on the third day of the Chinese New Year holiday period. That&#8217;s the highest single-day visitation tally in five years and represents 96 per cent of the record tally reported in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third day of the Chinese New Year usually sees the highest number of tourists entering the city. On Sunday,\u00a0the second day, <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-receives-163382-visitors-on-second-day-of-chinese-new-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the city received 163,382 tourists<\/a>, and on Saturday 121,334.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) director,&nbsp;<strong>Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong>, has said she expects Macau&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-expects-120000-daily-visitors-for-chinese-new-year\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to receive over 960,000 visitors<\/a>&nbsp;<strong>during the holiday period<\/strong>. That translates to an average of 120,000 daily visitor arrivals. Fernandes, however, has recently reported that visitor statistics for this year&#8217;s CNY Golden week are exceeding expectations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MGTO has set a target of&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-mgto-targets-33m-visitors-in-2024\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">welcoming 33 million visitors in 2024<\/a>, up from 28.2 million in 2023, but lower than the record-breaking 2019 when the city registered 39.4 million visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the highest single-day visitation tally in five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21299,"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 its highest single-day tourist visitation in five years during the Chinese New Year holiday, reaching 217,448 visitors on the third day, representing 96% of 2019's pre-pandemic peak. The Macau Government Tourist Office anticipates over 960,000 visitors for the entire holiday period, with a 2024 annual target of 33 million, signaling robust recovery for the region's gaming and hospitality sectors.","focusai_entities":"Macau Government Tourist Office, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.7), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's integrated resorts during the CNY holiday period, considering this visitation data and average spend per visitor?"},{"label":"2024 Outlook","query":"How does this robust CNY performance influence the Macau Government Tourist Office's 33 million visitor target for 2024, and what are the key drivers for sustained growth?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777013110","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\/777013110","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=777013110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777013144,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013110\/revisions\/777013144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777013110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777013110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777013110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}