{"id":777016322,"date":"2024-06-11T10:39:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777016322"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:18:10","slug":"macau-receives-342843-tourists-during-dragon-boat-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-receives-342843-tourists-during-dragon-boat-festival","title":{"rendered":"Macau receives 342,843 tourists during Dragon Boat Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The three-day festival attracted an average of 114,280 visitors per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The Public Security Police has reported that 342,843 tourists arrived in Macau during this year\u2019s <strong>Dragon Boat Festival\u00a0from June 8 to 10<\/strong>. Average daily visitation was 114,280, with arrivals peaking on Sunday (June 9) with 138,413 visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Border Gate land crossing with Zhuhai, in the neighbouring province of Guangdong, received nearly 41.2 per cent of visitors, handling 141,290 arrivals. Some 80,086 visitors crossed the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge during the period, accounting for 23.4 per cent of arrivals.<\/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&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-chief-executive-expects-over-30-million-visitors-this-year\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">33 million visitors<\/a> this year. She expects the number of non-Chinese visitors to Macau to&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-hopes-to-reach-pre-pandemic-foreign-tourist-levels-by-2025\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">return to pre-pandemic levels next year<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, Macau&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-received-28-million-visitors-in-2023\" 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>The three-day festival attracted an average of 114,280 visitors per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21776,"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 reported 342,843 tourist arrivals during the Dragon Boat Festival (June 8-10), averaging 114,280 visitors daily, with significant traffic through the Border Gate and Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. The Macao Government Tourism Office remains confident in achieving 33 million visitors this year and expects non-Chinese visitor numbers to return to pre-pandemic levels by 2025, building on 2023's 28.23 million arrivals.","focusai_entities":"Public Security Police, Macao Government Tourism Office, MGTO, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes","focusai_location":"Macau, Zhuhai, Guangdong, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Q2?","query":"Given the Dragon Boat Festival's robust visitation, what is the projected impact on Macau's Q2 GGR, and how does this compare to analyst consensus estimates?"},{"label":"Non-Gaming Revenue Strategy?","query":"Beyond gaming, what specific non-gaming revenue conversion strategies are Macau's integrated resorts deploying to capitalize on the increased tourist footfall, particularly from diverse visitor segments?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777016322","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\/777016322","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=777016322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777016335,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016322\/revisions\/777016335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777016322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777016322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777016322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}