Chief executive Ho Iat Seng said the venue would be close to the Lisboeta Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- Macau’s chief executive Ho Iat Seng <\/strong>has announced a new 94,000-square-meter outdoor venue that will hold up to 80,000 people near the Lisboeta Macau resort. The venue is set to be ready for use next year. Macau’s largest indoor venue is currently the Galaxy International Convention Centre, which can hold 16,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Macau continues to encourage non-gaming offerings to attract more tourists and diversify the economy. In 2023,\u00a0non-gaming spending by visitors reached MOP71.25bn (US$8.8bn)<\/a>, up 292 per cent\u00a0when\u00a0compared to the previous year and 11.2 per cent\u00a0when\u00a0compared to 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, the director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has said she is confident Macau will reach its goal of\u00a033 million visitors<\/a> this 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":" Chief executive Ho Iat Seng said the venue would be close to the Lisboeta Macau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25616,"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's Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng announced a new 94,000-square-meter outdoor venue near Lisboeta Macau, set to open next year. This initiative underscores Macau's strategic focus on non-gaming offerings to diversify its economy and attract more tourists, aiming for 33 million visitors this year and a return to pre-pandemic non-Chinese visitor levels by next year, following significant growth in non-gaming spending in 2023.","focusai_entities":"Ho Iat Seng, Lisboeta Macau, Galaxy International Convention Centre, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO)","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Non-Gaming ROI Impact?","query":"What is the projected return on investment for this new non-gaming infrastructure, and how will it specifically contribute to the NGR diversification targets for Macau's integrated resort concessionaires?"},{"label":"Visitor Mix Shift?","query":"How is the Macao Government Tourism Office forecasting the shift in visitor demographics and spending patterns, particularly from non-Chinese markets, as a direct result of enhanced non-gaming amenities?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777016523","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\/777016523","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=777016523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777016526,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016523\/revisions\/777016526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777016523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777016523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777016523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}