{"id":777018677,"date":"2024-09-02T10:13:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T13:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777018677"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:34:11","slug":"macau-records-6-69m-visitor-arrivals-in-july-and-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-records-6-69m-visitor-arrivals-in-july-and-august","title":{"rendered":"Macau records 6.69m visitor arrivals in July and August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Summer visitor numbers reached 93.4 per cent of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has reported that there were 6.69 million visitors in July and August. That&#8217;s 93.4 per cent of the 7.15 million visitors recorded in the same period in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, there were 3.66 million arrivals, surpassing the volume of August 2019. On August 24, <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-sees-166562-visitors-in-a-day-on-august-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the city received 166,562<\/a>, the highest single-day number in the summer holiday period. International visitors made up only 5 per cent but increased by 29.8 per cent compared to last year and reached 75.6 per cent 2019 levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cumulatively, 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> in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer visitor numbers reached 93.4 per cent of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25802,"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 demonstrated robust recovery in July and August, reaching 93.4% of 2019 visitor levels with 6.69 million arrivals. August alone surpassed pre-pandemic volumes, indicating strong momentum towards the Chief Executive's 2024 target of over 30 million tourists. This resurgence signals positive implications for the region's integrated resort operators and the broader gaming ecosystem.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, Ho Iat Seng","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.85), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.75), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Uplift Projections?","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's concessionaires given these visitor recovery rates and the Chief Executive's 2024 tourism target?"},{"label":"Operator Capex Adjustments?","query":"How are integrated resort operators adjusting their capital expenditure and staffing models in response to the accelerated visitor influx and anticipated future growth?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777018677","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\/777018677","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=777018677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777018677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777018681,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777018677\/revisions\/777018681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777018677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777018677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777018677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}