{"id":777019063,"date":"2024-09-16T09:48:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777019063"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:07:05","slug":"macau-welcomes-217816-visitors-at-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-welcomes-217816-visitors-at-the-weekend","title":{"rendered":"Macau welcomes 217,816 visitors at the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sunday marked the first day of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday break in mainland China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Macau&#8217;s Public Security Police have reported that 217,816 people visited Macau at the weekend. Some 92,502 arrive on Saturday (September 14), ahead of the start of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday in mainland China, which runs until tomorrow. Sunday, the first day of the holiday, saw 125,314 visitor arrivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Border Gate crossing between Macau and Zhuhai, the nearest mainland city in Guangdong province, was the most active with 83,830 arrivals over the weekend. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge crossing was the second busiest checkpoint, recording 45,890 arrivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said that it expects Macau to see an average of 100,000 visitors a day during the upcoming Chinese National Day Golden Week. The holiday period will take place from October 1 to 7. Four fireworks displays have been scheduled for October 1 and 7 to attract visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-sees-record-visitor-numbers-during-october-golden-week\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau saw 932,000 tourists during the holiday<\/a>, averaging 116,000 visitors per day.<\/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. Macau\u2019s chief executive,&nbsp;Ho Iat Seng, has 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>Sunday marked the first day of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday break in mainland China.<\/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 217,816 visitors over the Mid-Autumn Festival weekend, with 125,314 arrivals on the holiday's first day. The Macao Government Tourism Office projects an average of 100,000 daily visitors for the upcoming Chinese National Day Golden Week, supporting Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng's target of over 30 million tourists in 2024. This represents a 37.1% increase in cumulative visitors for the first seven months compared to the prior year.","focusai_entities":"Public Security Police, Macao Government Tourism Office, MGTO, Ho Iat Seng","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Zhuhai, Guangdong, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Conversion Analysis","query":"How do these visitor arrival figures and projections for Golden Week translate into anticipated Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for Macau's concessionaires, considering historical conversion rates and average spend per visitor segment?"},{"label":"Infrastructure Capacity Assessment","query":"What are the current infrastructure capacities and operational readiness of Macau's integrated resorts and transport hubs to accommodate the projected 30 million annual visitors, and what potential bottlenecks could impact the visitor experience and GGR?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777019063","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\/777019063","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=777019063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777019083,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019063\/revisions\/777019083"}],"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=777019063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777019063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777019063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}