{"id":777019391,"date":"2024-09-26T09:44:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T12:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777019391"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:45:28","slug":"tourism-in-macau-mgto-now-expects-over-100000-visitors-a-day-for-october-golden-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tourism-in-macau-mgto-now-expects-over-100000-visitors-a-day-for-october-golden-week","title":{"rendered":"Tourism in Macau: MGTO now expects over 100,000 visitors a day for October Golden Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As of last week, five-star hotels nearly fully booked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong>, the director of Macau\u2019s Government Tourism Office (MGTO),\u00a0said that the city may see an average of over 100,000 visitors a day this October Golden Week if weather conditions remain favourable. The holiday period will take place from October 1 to 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fernandes said hotel occupancy rates for the holiday period were around 70 per cent last week, with five-star hotels nearly fully booked. “Speaking from past experiences, hotel bookings go ‘mad’ in the week just before the Golden Week,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent analysis from Morgan Stanley Asia <\/strong>suggests that Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR)<\/a> could reach MOP900m (US$112.1m) during the Golden Week and MOP20bn (US$2.4bn) for October as a whole. The latter would be an increase of 1 per cent in year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysts at Seaport Research Partners<\/strong> have suggested that October GGR could hit MOP21.5bn (US$2.68bn), a rise of 10 per cent in year-on-year terms and 28 per cent sequentially. Analyst Vitaly Umansky<\/strong> based his estimates on a Golden Week GGR of MOP950m, up 4 per cent compared to May Golden Week and up 25 per cent compared to the Chinese New Year holiday period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also:<\/strong> Macau casinos: gaming taxes reach US$7.33bn in first 8 months of the year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitor arrivals up 13% in August<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) <\/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

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

Mainland Chinese tourists accounted for the majority of arrivals at 92,752,322. That\u2019s 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

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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of last week, five-star hotels nearly fully booked.<\/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 anticipates robust tourism and gaming revenue for the upcoming October Golden Week, with MGTO forecasting over 100,000 daily visitors and high hotel occupancy. Analysts from Morgan Stanley Asia and Seaport Research Partners project October GGR to reach MOP20bn-MOP21.5bn, indicating significant year-on-year growth. This positive outlook follows strong August visitor arrival data, which surpassed pre-pandemic levels.","focusai_entities":"Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Morgan Stanley Asia, Seaport Research Partners, Vitaly Umansky, Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong, South Korea, Philippines, China","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":"Golden Week Strategy","query":"What specific marketing or operational strategies are Macau's integrated resorts implementing to capitalize on the projected Golden Week visitor surge and optimize GGR?"},{"label":"GGR Recovery Trajectory","query":"How do the current GGR projections for October compare to the long-term recovery trajectory for Macau's gaming market, particularly concerning the balance between VIP and mass market segments?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777019391","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\/777019391","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=777019391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777019421,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019391\/revisions\/777019421"}],"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=777019391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777019391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777019391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}