Authorities recorded a daily average of 101,500 arriving in Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- Some 406,000 people visited Macau over the Easter holiday period from March 29 to April 1. Saturday witnessed the highest influx of 122,235. Meanwhile, Good Friday and Easter Sunday saw 105,169 and 103,000 arrivals, respectively. On Monday, 75,882 visitors entered the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This figure aligns with the projections from the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), which\u00a0anticipated an average daily arrival of 100,000 tourists<\/a>. The primary entry point for visitors were the Gongbei Border Gate linking Macao to Zhuhai (106,296 arrivals over the first three days), followed by the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (105,402 arrivals).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the increase in tourist numbers compared to last year (263,000), the figures fall short of pre-pandemic levels observed in 2019 (550,000, averaging 137,500 per day). For the Cheng Ming Festival, which spans from April 4 to 6 in mainland China, MGTO’s director,\u00a0Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong>\u00a0expects an average of 100,000 arrivals per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fernandes has previously stated that\u00a0Macau expects to attract 33 million visitors this year<\/a>\u00a0including around 3 million overseas visitors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Authorities recorded a daily average of 101,500 arriving in Macau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26653,"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 406,000 tourist arrivals during the Easter holiday, averaging 101,500 daily, aligning with Macao Government Tourism Office projections. While an increase from the previous year, these figures remain below 2019 pre-pandemic levels. Projections for upcoming festivals and the full year indicate continued recovery, with 33 million visitors anticipated for 2024.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes","focusai_location":"Macau, Zhuhai, Hong Kong, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the estimated GGR impact for Macau's gaming concessionaires based on these Easter holiday tourist volumes and the full-year visitor projections?"},{"label":"Visitor Demographics Shift","query":"How do the current visitor demographics, particularly source markets and spending patterns, compare to pre-pandemic levels, and what are the implications for the premium mass and VIP segments?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777014425","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\/777014425","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=777014425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777014446,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014425\/revisions\/777014446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777014425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777014425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777014425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}