The number represented 61.3 per cent of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.-\u00a0The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)\u00a0<\/strong>has reported that 184,854 international tourists arrived in Macau in May. The figure was up 74 per cent in year-on-year terms and represented 61.3 per cent of the 2019 level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The city had 2,692,191 visitors in total, up 21.6 per cent when compared to last year and up 3.5 per cent from April. The Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia were the top international tourist markets, with 35,852, 15,094, and 14,512 visits, up 73.8 per cent, 80.2 per cent, and 15.6 per cent respectively compared to the same month in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Macau received over 14 million visitors in the first five months of the year. Macau\u2019s chief executive,\u00a0Ho Iat Seng<\/strong>, has set a goal of 30 million tourists for 2024<\/a> while the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) says the city aims to attract\u00a02 million visitors<\/a> from outside of China this year and three million in 2025, which would be in line with 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The number represented 61.3 per cent of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21513,"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 Statistics and Census Service reported 184,854 international tourists in May, a 74% year-on-year increase, reaching 61.3% of 2019 levels. Total visitors for May were 2.69 million, contributing to over 14 million visitors in the first five months. The city aims for 30 million total tourists in 2024 and 3 million non-China visitors by 2025, aligning with pre-pandemic figures.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), Ho Iat Seng, Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO)","focusai_location":"Macau, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.85), operator_casino (0.98), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Contribution Forecast?","query":"Given the reported international visitor growth, what is the projected GGR contribution from non-China source markets for Macau's integrated resorts in H2 2024?"},{"label":"Capex Strategy Impact?","query":"How do the current international visitor recovery rates, particularly from Southeast Asia, influence the capital expenditure strategies of Macau's concessionaires for non-gaming amenities?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777016680","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\/777016680","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=777016680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777016685,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016680\/revisions\/777016685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777016680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777016680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777016680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}