{"id":777019234,"date":"2024-09-23T09:09:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T12:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777019234"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:52:13","slug":"tourism-in-macau-23m-visitors-in-first-eight-months-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tourism-in-macau-23m-visitors-in-first-eight-months-of-the-year","title":{"rendered":"Tourism in Macau: 23m visitors in first eight months of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Macau’s tourism authority expects visitor arrivals to reach 34 million by the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.-\u00a0The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)<\/strong>\u00a0has reported that Macau received 23 million visitors in the first eight months of the year. That\u2019s an increase of 30 per cent when compared to last year and represents 84 per cent of the 2019 level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong>, the director of Macau\u2019s Government Tourism Office (MGTO), has said she is confident Macau will reach 34 million visits this year, about 6 million more than in 2023. In April, Macau\u2019s chief executive,\u00a0Ho Iat Seng, said that Macau could\u00a0attract more than 30 million tourists<\/a>\u00a0in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city is now preparing for the October Golden Week, which will take place from October 1 to 7 inclusive. Fernandes said that she expects Macau to see an average of 100,000 visitors a day during the holiday period. Last year,\u00a0Macau saw 932,000 tourists during the holiday<\/a>, averaging 116,000 visitors per day. Earlier this month, CLSA\u00a0reported that 80 per cent of Macau hotels were fully booked for the October Golden Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also: <\/strong>Macau casinos: Golden Week GGR to reach US$112.1m, analysts say<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mid-Autumn Festival: 492,100 visit Macau<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Public Security Police has reported that 492,100 visitors arrived in Macau<\/strong> during China\u2019s Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, which started on Sunday and ended yesterday (September 18). The average daily number of visitor arrivals during the holiday period was 98,420. Some 125,314 arrived on the first day of the holiday and 124,261 on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Border Gate crossing between Macau and Zhuhai, the nearest mainland city in Guangdong province, was the most active with 195,789 arrivals, 39.8 per cent of all visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Macau’s tourism authority expects visitor arrivals to reach 34 million by the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26451,"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 authority projects 34 million visitor arrivals by year-end 2024, building on 23 million visitors in the first eight months, representing 84% of 2019 levels. Strong visitor numbers are anticipated for the upcoming October Golden Week and were observed during the recent Mid-Autumn Festival, indicating robust recovery in the region's tourism and, by extension, its gaming verticals.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Macau's Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Ho Iat Seng, CLSA, Public Security Police","focusai_location":"Macau, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact","query":"What is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) uplift for Macau's concessionaires during the October Golden Week, given the anticipated 100,000 daily visitor arrivals?"},{"label":"Operational Capacity","query":"How are Macau's integrated resort operators adjusting their operational capacity, staffing levels, and non-gaming amenities to manage the projected 34 million visitor arrivals in 2024 and optimize revenue per visitor?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777019234","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\/777019234","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=777019234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777019291,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019234\/revisions\/777019291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777019234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777019234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777019234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}