{"id":777019294,"date":"2024-09-24T10:06:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T13:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777019294"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:49:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:49:56","slug":"tourism-in-macau-visitor-arrivals-up-13-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tourism-in-macau-visitor-arrivals-up-13-in-august","title":{"rendered":"Tourism in Macau: visitor arrivals up 13% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some 3.65 million people visited Macau in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The <strong>Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)\u00a0<\/strong>has reported that 3,651,731 people visited Macau in August. The figure was up 13 per cent in year-on-year terms and up 20.9 per cent when compared to the previous month. It was up 0.8 per cent compared to the pre-pandemic figure from 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Same-day visitors (2.04 million) rose by 23.4 per cent year-on-year and overnight visitors (1.61 million) by 2.7 per cent. The average length of stay shortened by 0.1 days in year-on-year terms to 1.1 days, with that of overnight visitors rising by 0.1 days to 2.3 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mainland Chinese tourists accounted for the majority of arrivals at 92,752,322. That&#8217;s a rise of 18.5 per cent year-on-year. When compared to 2019 levels, the figure was up 4 per cent. Visitors from Hong Kong reached 663,449, over 99 per cent of 2019 levels but down 6.8 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International visitor arrivals reached 162,331, over 74 per cent of 2019 levels. In year-on-year terms, the figure was up 25.5 per cent. South Korea made up the biggest share, followed by the Philippines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau received 23 million visitors <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tourism-in-macau-23m-visitors-in-first-eight-months-of-the-year\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in the first eight months of the year<\/a>. 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<p><strong>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 3.65 million people visited Macau in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25147,"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 3.65 million visitors in August, marking a 13% year-on-year increase and surpassing 2019 pre-pandemic levels by 0.8%. This robust recovery, primarily driven by Mainland Chinese tourists, contributes to a projected 34 million visits for the full year, signaling strong market revitalization.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), Macau's Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's concessionaires given the sustained recovery in visitor arrivals and the shift in average length of stay, particularly from overnight visitors?"},{"label":"Market Diversification","query":"How do the increasing international visitor numbers, particularly from South Korea and the Philippines, align with Macau's strategic objectives for market diversification beyond traditional Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong segments?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777019294","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\/777019294","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=777019294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777019328,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019294\/revisions\/777019328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777019294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777019294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777019294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}