{"id":777013456,"date":"2024-02-26T08:26:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T11:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777013456"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:39:10","slug":"macau-visitor-arrivals-up-104-7-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-104-7-in-january","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitor arrivals up 104.7% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nearly 2.86 million people visited Macau in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The<strong>\u00a0Statistics and Census Service<\/strong>\u00a0has reported that 2.86 million people visited Macau in January. The figure was up 104.7 per cent in year-on-year terms but down 2.8 per cent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-656-in-december-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">when compared to the previous month<\/a>. Visitor arrivals reached 83.5 per cent of those in the same month of 2019, before Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overnight visitors (1.38 million) rose by 48.3 per cent year-on-year. The average length of stay decreased by 0.4 days to 2.2 days. Visits from\u00a0<strong>mainland China<\/strong>\u00a0were up by 107.3 per cent at 2.06 million. Of these, around 1.12 million people travelled under the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS), an increase of 57.8 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitors from Hong Kong were up 53 per cent (546,277) year-on-year and up 102.3 per cent when compared to 2019. The number of international visitors, excluding those from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, reached 199,278. This represents about 66.4 per cent of the figure recorded in the same month of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The director of<strong>\u00a0Macau\u2019s Government Tourism Office (MGTO)<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/helena-de-senna-fernandes-reappointed-as-mgto-director\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/a>, has said that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-mgto-targets-33m-visitors-in-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the city expects to attract 33 million visitors this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 2.86 million people visited Macau in January.<\/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 2.86 million visitor arrivals in January, marking a 104.7% year-on-year increase and reaching 83.5% of pre-pandemic 2019 levels. The recovery was primarily driven by visitors from Mainland China and Hong Kong, with the Macau Government Tourism Office projecting 33 million visitors for the full year.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service, Macau Government Tourism Office, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.98), marketing_crm (0.78), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.72), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis?","query":"What is the projected GGR impact of this January visitor volume and the full-year forecast on Macau's six gaming concessionaires, considering average spend and gaming vertical mix?"},{"label":"Operational Adjustments Required?","query":"How do the shifts in visitor demographics, particularly the increase in Individual Visit Scheme travelers, necessitate operational adjustments and B2B supplier demand within Macau's integrated resorts?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777013456","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\/777013456","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=777013456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777013464,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013456\/revisions\/777013464"}],"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=777013456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777013456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777013456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}