{"id":777017111,"date":"2024-07-10T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777017111"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:18:29","slug":"macau-holds-roadshow-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-holds-roadshow-in-malaysia","title":{"rendered":"Macau holds roadshow in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The event took place over four days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The <strong>Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO)<\/strong> has held a roadshown to promote the Macau in Malaysia. The four-day Experience Macau Malaysia Roadshow was held at the Blue Concourse in Kuala Lumpur&#8217;s Sunway Pyramid shopping mall from July 5 to 8. Casino operators took part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opening ceremony of the roadshow was attended by <strong>Cheng Wai Tong<\/strong>, deputy director of the MGTO; <strong>Manoharan Periasamy<\/strong>, director general of Tourism Malaysia; <strong>Nigel Wong Chun Teim<\/strong>, president of the Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents; <strong>Cynthia Tan<\/strong>, deputy president of the Malaysian Chinese Tourism Association; and<strong> Vic Lam<\/strong>, chief of the Division of Culture, Tourism, MICE, Trade and Commerce of the Economic Development Bureau of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau\u2019s chief executive,&nbsp;Ho Iat Seng, has set a 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\">30 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&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/mgto-to-hold-five-international-roadshows-between-april-and-june\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a series of roadshows<\/a>&nbsp;in Seoul, Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok, and Kuala Lumpur between late April and June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event took place over four days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) conducted a four-day roadshow in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with participation from casino operators, as part of a broader strategy to diversify international tourist markets. This initiative supports Macau's chief executive's goal of attracting 30 million tourists in 2024, following similar promotional events in other Asian cities. The focus is on expanding visitor source markets beyond traditional regions to bolster the region's tourism and gaming sectors.","focusai_entities":"Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO), Tourism Malaysia, Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents, Malaysian Chinese Tourism Association, Economic Development Bureau of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, Cheng Wai Tong, Manoharan Periasamy, Nigel Wong Chun Teim, Cynthia Tan, Vic Lam, Ho Iat Seng","focusai_location":"Macau, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Hengqin, Seoul, Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Uplift Projection?","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's integrated resorts resulting from this international market diversification strategy, specifically from the Malaysian market?"},{"label":"New Player Demographics?","query":"How will the influx of tourists from new international markets influence the player demographic profiles and associated CRM strategies for Macau's casino operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777017111","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\/777017111","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=777017111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777017122,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017111\/revisions\/777017122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777017111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777017111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777017111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}