{"id":777014046,"date":"2024-03-18T08:33:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T11:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777014046"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:58:23","slug":"macau-expects-over-100000-daily-visitors-for-easter-holiday-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-expects-over-100000-daily-visitors-for-easter-holiday-period","title":{"rendered":"Macau expects over 100,000 daily visitors for Easter holiday period"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historically, Hong Kong is Macau&#8217;s main inbound market during the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.-\u00a0<strong>Andy Wu Keng Kuong<\/strong>, the president of the Macau Travel Industry Council, has predicted that Macau&#8217;s daily average of visitors could exceed 100,000 in the upcoming Easter holiday period. While Easter is not a public holiday on the Chinese mainland, it holds significance in Macau and neighbouring Hong Kong, which is usually the largest source market during the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2023,\u00a0<strong>481,765 visitors arrived in Macau<\/strong>\u00a0during the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-receives-over-480000-visitors-during-easter-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Easter season<\/a>, which included the Chinese festival of Ching Ming and the Easter holidays. According to data from the city\u2019s Public Security Police, the daily average for the six-day period was just over 80,000 visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau has been seeing <strong>an average of 70,000 to 80,000 visitor arrivals daily<\/strong>, as stated by<strong>\u00a0Ricky Hoi Io Meng<\/strong>, the deputy director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO). However, Hoi noted that arrivals surpassed 100,000 on March 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, the Easter break in Hong Kong runs from March 29 to April 1. Following Easter comes Ching Ming, a public holiday in Hong Kong, mainland China, and Macau. Ching Ming runs from April 4 to April 6 in China and April 4 alone in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/vietnamese-consul-general-calls-for-relaxation-of-macau-visa-rules\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vietnamese consul general calls for relaxation of Macau visa rules<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historically, Hong Kong is Macau&#8217;s main inbound market during the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"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 anticipates daily visitor arrivals to exceed 100,000 during the upcoming Easter and Ching Ming holidays, driven primarily by inbound tourism from Hong Kong. This projection, supported by recent daily averages of 70,000-80,000 and a peak of over 100,000 on March 10, indicates a robust recovery in regional travel. The Easter break in Hong Kong runs from March 29 to April 1, followed by Ching Ming from April 4 to April 6.","focusai_entities":"Macau Travel Industry Council, Andy Wu Keng Kuong, Macao Government Tourism Office, MGTO, Ricky Hoi Io Meng, Public Security Police","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong, Chinese mainland, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.95), marketing_crm (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.7)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis?","query":"What is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) uplift for Macau's integrated resorts during the Easter and Ching Ming holiday periods, considering the anticipated visitor volume?"},{"label":"Operator Performance Outlook?","query":"Which specific Macau gaming operators are best positioned to capitalize on the expected surge in visitor arrivals, and what are their anticipated market share gains?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777014046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014046","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=777014046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777014063,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014046\/revisions\/777014063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777014046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777014046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777014046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}