Macau received 11.5 million visitors in the first four months of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.-\u00a0Authorities have announced that Macau received nearly 11.5 million visitors in the first four months of the year. The figure was up by 58.9 per cent compared to the same period last year and represented 83.2 per cent of 2019 levels<\/strong>. The average stay was 1.2 days, slightly shorter than in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In April, there was a 14.4 per cent rise in visitors compared to last year but a 4.4 per cent decrease from March. Mainland Chinese tourists accounted for the majority at 1.7 million, nearly 74.2 per cent of 2019 levels.\u00a0Numbers from Hong Kong and Taiwan reached 83.5 per cent and 80 per cent of 2019 levels. Overseas arrivals reached 208,297, 68.6 per cent of 2019 levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In April, Macau\u2019s chief executive,\u00a0Ho Iat Seng<\/strong>, said that Macau could\u00a0attract more than 30 million tourists<\/a>\u00a0in 2024.\u00a0The director of\u00a0Macau\u2019s Government Tourism Office (MGTO)<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/a> has said the government is on track to achieve a target of\u00a02 million overseas visitors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Macau received 11.5 million visitors in the first four months of 2024.<\/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 11.5 million visitors in the first four months of 2024, representing an 83.2% recovery to 2019 levels and a 58.9% increase year-on-year. Mainland Chinese tourists continue to dominate arrivals, while authorities aim for 30 million total visitors and 2 million overseas visitors for the full year.","focusai_entities":"Ho Iat Seng, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Macau's Government Tourism Office","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Trajectory?","query":"Given the 83.2% recovery to 2019 visitor levels, what is the projected GGR recovery trajectory for Macau's concessionaires in H2 2024, particularly considering the slight decrease in April from March?"},{"label":"Non-Gaming Diversification Impact?","query":"How do the current visitor demographics, specifically the continued dominance of Mainland Chinese tourists, influence the non-gaming diversification strategies and capital expenditure plans of Macau's integrated resort operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777015751","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\/777015751","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=777015751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777015784,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015751\/revisions\/777015784"}],"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=777015751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777015751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777015751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}