{"id":777014458,"date":"2024-04-04T09:35:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777014458"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:29:19","slug":"macau-airport-sees-an-80-rise-in-easter-holiday-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-airport-sees-an-80-rise-in-easter-holiday-passengers","title":{"rendered":"Macau airport sees an 80% rise in Easter holiday passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau International Airport saw 88,978 passengers and 658 flights from 29 March to 1 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-\u00a0<strong>Macau International Airport\u00a0<\/strong>saw 88,978 air passenger movements during the four-day Easter holiday from March 29 to April 1. That&#8217;s a rise of 80.4 per cent in passenger volume compared to the same period last year but still only 74 per cent of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 658 flights, a rise of 44.6 per cent compared to the corresponding period in 2023 but still only 76 per cent of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-receives-406000-visitors-over-easter-holiday-period\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">406,000 people visited Macau over the Easter holiday period<\/a>. Saturday saw the highest influx of 122,235. 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<p>The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO)\u2019s director,&nbsp;<strong>Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong> has previously stated that Macau&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-mgto-targets-33m-visitors-in-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expects to attract 33 million visitors this year<\/a>&nbsp;including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/mgto-expects-3m-overseas-visitors-in-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">around 3 million overseas visitors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau International Airport saw 88,978 passengers and 658 flights from 29 March to 1 April.<\/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 International Airport recorded 88,978 passengers and 658 flights during the Easter holiday, representing an 80.4% and 44.6% year-on-year increase, respectively, though still below 2019 levels. Macau welcomed 406,000 visitors over the same period, with the Macao Government Tourism Office projecting 33 million visitors for the full year.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes","focusai_location":"Macau, Macau International Airport","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected impact of these Easter holiday visitor volumes on Macau's Q2 GGR, particularly for the integrated resort concessionaires?"},{"label":"Recovery Trajectory","query":"How do these visitor recovery rates, relative to 2019 levels, align with the Macao Government Tourism Office's full-year visitor projections and what are the implications for long-term market normalization?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777014458","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\/777014458","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=777014458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777014487,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014458\/revisions\/777014487"}],"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=777014458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777014458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777014458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}