{"id":777016276,"date":"2024-06-10T09:28:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T12:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777016276"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:21:28","slug":"macau-dragon-boat-festival-sees-259308-tourist-arrivals-in-first-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-dragon-boat-festival-sees-259308-tourist-arrivals-in-first-two-days","title":{"rendered":"Macau Dragon Boat Festival sees 259,308 tourist arrivals in first two days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Numbers have exceeded estimates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Preliminary data released by\u00a0<strong>Macau\u2019s Public Security Police<\/strong>\u00a0show 259,308 tourists arrived in Macau over the first two days of this year\u2019s Dragon Boat Festival (June 8 to June 10). Some 138,413 visitors entered the city on Sunday and 120,895\u00a0on Saturday for an average of 129,654 per day, exceeding the estimates of industry representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong>, the director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has said she is confident Macau will reach its goal of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-chief-executive-expects-over-30-million-visitors-this-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">33 million visitors<\/a>\u00a0this year. She expects the number of non-Chinese visitors to Macau to <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-hopes-to-reach-pre-pandemic-foreign-tourist-levels-by-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">return to pre-pandemic levels next year<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, Macau\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-received-28-million-visitors-in-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received 28.23 million visitors<\/a>, 71 per cent of the 2019 pre-pandemic levels (39.4 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numbers have exceeded estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19870,"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 259,308 tourist arrivals during the first two days of the Dragon Boat Festival, exceeding industry estimates with an average of 129,654 visitors daily. 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