{"id":777013187,"date":"2024-02-15T10:13:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T13:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777013187"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:59:15","slug":"macau-receives-898665-tourists-in-first-five-days-of-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-receives-898665-tourists-in-first-five-days-of-chinese-new-year","title":{"rendered":"Macau receives 898,665 tourists in first five days of Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Macau Government Tourist Office expected the city to receive over 960,000 visitors during the holiday period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Macau has recorded 898,665 visitors for the first five days of the Chinese New Year holiday week. On Wednesday (February 14), there were 195,567 arrivals. With three days remaining, the number suggests that Macau is poised to exceed authorities&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-expects-120000-daily-visitors-for-chinese-new-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">estimate of 960,000 visitors<\/a>\u00a0for the holiday period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Andy Wu<\/strong>, president of the Travel Industry Council of Macau, expressed optimism about the momentum, indicating the potential for over one million visitors by the end of the holiday period. On February 12,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-records-217448-tourist-arrivals-on-third-day-of-chinese-new-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau recorded its second-highest single-day visitation tally, with 217,448 arrivals<\/a>. This figure was only slightly lower than the city&#8217;s all-time high on February 7, 2019, also during the Chinese New Year Golden Week.\u00a0The average daily visitation rate currently stands at 179,713 tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sands China president\u00a0<strong>Wilfred Wong Ying Wai<\/strong>\u00a0has predicted that Macau could generate up to MOP20bn (US$2.5bn) in GGR this month. Wong based his estimates on the MGTO&#8217;s estimates for the holiday period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Macau Government Tourist Office expected the city to receive over 960,000 visitors during the holiday period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19429,"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 visitor numbers during the Chinese New Year holiday are poised to exceed official estimates, potentially surpassing one million arrivals. This robust visitation has led Sands China's president to project a significant Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) of up to MOP20bn (US$2.5bn) for February, indicating a strong recovery in the gaming vertical. The figures highlight a near return to pre-pandemic peak visitation levels, signaling positive momentum for the integrated resort sector.","focusai_entities":"Macau Government Tourist Office, Travel Industry Council of Macau, Andy Wu, Sands China, Wilfred Wong Ying Wai","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Forecast Accuracy","query":"What specific factors beyond visitor volume, such as average spend per visitor or VIP segment recovery, are underpinning Sands China's MOP20bn GGR forecast for February, and how does this align with historical conversion rates?"},{"label":"Market Recovery Sustainability","query":"How do these robust Chinese New Year visitation figures compare to pre-pandemic Golden Week performance in terms of gaming revenue per visitor, and what does this imply for sustained market recovery beyond holiday periods?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777013187","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\/777013187","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=777013187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777013219,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013187\/revisions\/777013219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777013187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777013187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777013187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}