{"id":777014834,"date":"2024-04-18T08:24:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T11:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777014834"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:03:43","slug":"macau-received-nearly-9m-visitors-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-received-nearly-9m-visitors-in-q1","title":{"rendered":"Macau received nearly 9m visitors in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The number of visitors was up by 80 per cent in year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The <strong>Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO)<\/strong>\u00a0has announced that the city received nearly 9 million visitors during the first three months of the year. The figure was up by 80 per cent compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data indicates an average of 98,000 visitors per day, still only 85 per cent of pre-pandemic levels in 2019.\u00a0The Lunar New Year holiday on February 12 saw 220,000 arrivals recorded, the second-highest single-day figure on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mainland Chinese tourists accounted for the majority of arrivals at 6.3 million nearly 84 per cent of 2019 levels.\u00a0Visitors from Hong Kong and Taiwan reached 1.82 million and 182,000 respectively, while international travellers totaled 585,000 people, almost 68 per cent of 2019 levels.<\/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> said that based on the results, the government is on track to achieve its target of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-government-tourism-office-expects-over-2m-overseas-visitors-in-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2 million overseas visitors<\/a>\u00a0this year.\u00a0Senna Fernandes expects an average of 130,000 visitors per day during the upcoming Labour Day &#8220;golden week&#8221; holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, Macau\u2019s chief executive,\u00a0<strong>Ho Iat Seng<\/strong>, said that Macau could\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-chief-executive-expects-over-30-million-visitors-this-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attract more than 30 million tourists<\/a>\u00a0in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of visitors was up by 80 per cent in year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19813,"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 nearly 9 million visitors in Q1, an 80% year-on-year increase, reaching 85% of 2019 pre-pandemic levels. Mainland Chinese tourists comprised the majority, with international visitor recovery lagging slightly. Government officials project continued growth, targeting 2 million overseas visitors and over 30 million total tourists for 2024, signaling a robust recovery for the region's tourism and gaming sectors.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Ho Iat Seng","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.98), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"Given the 80% year-on-year increase in Q1 visitor arrivals, what is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's gaming concessionaires, and how does this compare to pre-pandemic revenue per visitor metrics?"},{"label":"International Visitor Strategy","query":"With international visitor recovery at 68% of 2019 levels, what specific B2B and B2C marketing initiatives are Macau's integrated resorts implementing to accelerate this segment's growth and diversify revenue streams beyond traditional gaming verticals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777014834","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\/777014834","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=777014834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777014850,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014834\/revisions\/777014850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777014834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777014834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777014834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}