{"id":777014152,"date":"2024-03-21T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777014152"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:50:22","slug":"macau-visitor-arrivals-up-106-7-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-106-7-in-february","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitor arrivals up 106.7% in February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some 3.3 million people visited Macau in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The<strong>\u00a0Statistics and Census Service<\/strong>\u00a0has reported that 3.3 million people visited Macau in February. The figure was up 106.7 per cent in year-on-year terms and up 15.1 per cent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-104-7-in-january\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">when compared to the previous month<\/a>. It was 92.9 per cent of the pre-pandemic figure from 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Same-day visitors (1,867,660) rose by 148.9 per cent year-on-year and overnight visitors (1,425,904) by 69.1 per cent. International visitor arrivals reached 176,192, 71.6 per cent of 2019 levels. Some 39,837 visitors came from The Philippines and 12,471 from Indonesia. The numbers from Malaysia and Thailand reached to 91.7 per cent and 92.9 per cent of 2019 levels while US visitors amounted to 9,903.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-government-tourism-office-expects-over-2m-overseas-visitors-in-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau Government Tourism Office expects over 2m overseas visitors in 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visits from\u00a0<strong>mainland China<\/strong>\u00a0were up by 143.9 per cent at 2.44 million. Of these, around 1.49m people travelled under the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS), an increase of 135.9 per cent. The director of the MGTO,<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 stated that the city expects to attract 33 million visitors this year. The MGTO plans to allocate MOP235m (US$29.2m) towards promotional campaigns and incentives targeting overseas markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 3.3 million people visited Macau in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25802,"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 3.3 million visitors in February, marking a 106.7% year-on-year increase and reaching 92.9% of pre-pandemic levels. This surge, significantly driven by Mainland China's Individual Visit Scheme, underpins the Macau Government Tourism Office's projection of 33 million visitors for 2024 and its MOP235m promotional investment targeting overseas markets.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service, Macau Government Tourism Office, MGTO, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes","focusai_location":"Macau, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, US, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's concessionaires in Q1 2024, factoring in this visitor volume and average spend per segment, particularly from the Individual Visit Scheme?"},{"label":"Market Diversification Strategy","query":"How will the MOP235m overseas market promotion budget impact the diversification of Macau's visitor base, and what are the long-term implications for resilience against mainland China policy shifts?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777014152","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\/777014152","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=777014152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777014175,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014152\/revisions\/777014175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777014152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777014152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777014152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}