{"id":777018469,"date":"2024-08-26T09:44:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T12:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777018469"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:49:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:49:32","slug":"macau-sees-166562-visitors-in-a-day-on-august-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-sees-166562-visitors-in-a-day-on-august-24","title":{"rendered":"Macau sees 166,562 visitors in a day on August 24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s the highest single-day visitor count since the summer holiday season began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-<strong> The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) <\/strong>has reported that Macau received 166,562 tourists on Saturday (August 24). It was the highest single-day arrival number during the summer holiday period, which started on July 1. The figure was up 7.5 per cent when compared to the highest single-day total in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau received <strong>5.9 million tourists between July 1 and August 24<\/strong>, with an average of 107,313 visitors per day. This was 91.9 per cent of the levels seen during the same period in 2019. Some 302,229 international tourists were recorded, averaging 5,495 per day and 74.9 per cent of the levels seen in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau received nearly 19.75 million visitors in the first seven months of the year. The figure was up by 37.1 per cent compared to the same period last year. In April, Macau\u2019s chief executive,&nbsp;Ho Iat Seng, said that Macau could&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-chief-executive-expects-over-30-million-visitors-this-year\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attract more than 30 million tourists<\/a>&nbsp;in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the highest single-day visitor count since the summer holiday season began.<\/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 recorded its highest single-day tourist arrival count since the summer holiday began, with 166,562 visitors on August 24, surpassing 2019 levels by 7.5%. The region welcomed 5.9 million tourists between July 1 and August 24, reaching 91.9% of pre-pandemic figures, with international arrivals at 74.9% of 2019 levels. This strong recovery positions Macau to potentially exceed 30 million tourists in 2024, as projected by its Chief Executive.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Ho Iat Seng","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.85), compliance_legal (0.75), operator_casino (0.98), marketing_crm (0.88), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR?","query":"What is the projected correlation between this surge in visitor arrivals and the Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) performance for Macau's integrated resort operators in Q3 and Q4 2024?"},{"label":"International Visitor Strategy?","query":"How are Macau's integrated resort operators adapting their marketing and product strategies to further accelerate the recovery of international visitor segments, given they are still below 2019 levels?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777018469","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\/777018469","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=777018469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777018469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777018496,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777018469\/revisions\/777018496"}],"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=777018469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777018469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777018469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}