Macau has reached more than half of its target for the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- Ricky Hoi Io Meng, deputy director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has reported that 1.17 million tourists from outside of China arrived in Macau in the first half of the year. He told broadcaster TDM, that authorities are optimistic about reaching the goal of 2 million<\/a> by the end of the year and three million in 2025, which would be in line with 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Macau\u2019s chief executive,\u00a0Ho Iat Seng, has set a goal of\u00a030 million tourists in total for 2024<\/a>. The city received over 14 million visitors in total in the first five months of the year. In a bid to diversify international tourist markets, the MGTO carried out a series of roadshows<\/a> in Seoul, Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok, and Kuala Lumpur between late April and June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Macau has reached more than half of its target for the year.<\/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's tourism sector reported 1.17 million international visitors in H1, with authorities optimistic about reaching 2 million by year-end and 3 million in 2025, aligning with 2019 levels. The Macao Government Tourism Office is actively diversifying international source markets through targeted roadshows, supporting the Chief Executive's overall target of 30 million tourists for 2024.","focusai_entities":"Ricky Hoi Io Meng, Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), TDM, Ho Iat Seng","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Seoul, Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR per International Visitor?","query":"What is the current GGR per international visitor compared to pre-pandemic benchmarks, and how does this influence concessionaire revenue forecasts?"},{"label":"EBITDA Impact?","query":"How do these international visitor numbers specifically impact the projected EBITDA margins and capital expenditure plans for Macau's integrated resort concessionaires?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777017043","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\/777017043","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=777017043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777017046,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017043\/revisions\/777017046"}],"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=777017043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777017043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777017043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}