Some 9.9 million visitors were from mainland China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.-\u00a0Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong>, the director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO)\u00a0has announced that Macau received over 14 million visitors in the first five months of the year. The figure was up by 50 per cent compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The data indicates an average of 93,000 visitors per day, still only 82.5 per cent of pre-pandemic levels in 2019.\u00a0According to public broadcaster TDM, mainland Chinese tourists accounted for the majority of arrivals at 9.9 million.\u00a0Visitors from Hong Kong have reached 97.1 per cent of 2019 levels, while the number of tourists from Taiwan (324,000) reached 73.4 per cent of pre-Covid-19 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n International travellers totalled 978,000, with a daily average of over 6,400, almost 67 per cent of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n De Senna Fernandes said she is confident Macau will reach its goal of\u00a033 million visitors<\/a>\u00a0this year. She expects the number of non-Chinese visitors to Macau to\u00a0return to pre-pandemic levels next year<\/a>. Last year, Macau\u00a0received 28.23 million visitors<\/a>, 71 per cent of the 2019 pre-pandemic levels (39.4 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some 9.9 million visitors were from mainland China.<\/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 recorded over 14 million visitors in the first five months of the year, marking a 50% increase year-on-year, though still 82.5% of 2019 levels. Mainland Chinese tourists constituted the majority at 9.9 million, with the Macao Government Tourism Office projecting 33 million visitors for the year and a full recovery of non-Chinese visitors by next year.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, TDM","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), operator_casino (0.98), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.92)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) uplift for Macau's concessionaires, segmented by gaming vertical, given the current visitor recovery trajectory and anticipated non-gaming spend per visitor?"},{"label":"Operator Strategy Shift","query":"How are Macau's integrated resort operators recalibrating their B2C marketing, loyalty programs, and operational service delivery to optimize engagement with the increasing international visitor segment?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777016479","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\/777016479","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=777016479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777016494,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016479\/revisions\/777016494"}],"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=777016479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777016479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777016479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}