{"id":777022531,"date":"2025-02-03T10:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T13:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777022531"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:13:20","slug":"chinese-new-year-in-macau-873780-tourists-in-first-five-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-new-year-in-macau-873780-tourists-in-first-five-days","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year in Macau: 873,780 tourists in first five days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Friday saw the highest tally with 219,119 arrivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Macau has recorded 873,780 visitors for the first five days of the Chinese New Year holiday week. That\u2019s an average of 174,756 arrivals per day. The <strong>highest single-day tally<\/strong> was 219,119\u00a0arrivals on Friday. This was followed by Saturday (218,396) and Sunday (189,158). There were 172,783 arrivals on Thursday and 131,896 on Wednesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The numbers show a decline of 8.6 per cent compared to the 2024 Lunar New Year Golden Week, which ran from February 10 to February 17 that year. Last year, there were<strong> 1,357,064 visitor arrivals<\/strong> during the holidays, and the city\u2019s average hotel occupancy rate peaked at 95.2 per cent. \u00a0The Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) director,\u00a0<strong>Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong>, has said she expected Macau\u00a0to receive an average of 185,000 daily visitor arrivals during this year&#8217;s holdiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-international-airport-to-increase-flight-frequencies-for-chinese-new-year\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau International Airport to increase flight frequencies for Chinese New Year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cheung Kin Chung<\/strong>, the leader of the Hoteliers and Innkeepers Association, said the city&#8217;s hotels were expected to achieve occupancy rates ranging <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-hotel-occupancy-rate-to-reach-around-90-for-chinese-new-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from 90 to 95 per cent<\/a>. Many high-end establishments were fully booked for at least part of the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday saw the highest tally with 219,119 arrivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21858,"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 873,780 visitors during the first five days of the Chinese New Year holiday, averaging 174,756 arrivals daily. This represents an 8.6% decline compared to the 2024 Lunar New Year Golden Week, despite hotel occupancy rates projected to reach 90-95%.","focusai_entities":"Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO), Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Cheung Kin Chung, Hoteliers and Innkeepers Association","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.98), marketing_crm (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.78), journalist_researcher (0.92)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis?","query":"What is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) impact for Macau's concessionaires given the 8.6% decline in visitor arrivals during the Chinese New Year holiday compared to the previous year?"},{"label":"Reasons for Decline?","query":"What specific market dynamics or external factors are contributing to the year-over-year decline in Macau's visitor arrivals, and how might this influence future tourism policy or marketing strategies?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777022531","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\/777022531","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=777022531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777022554,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022531\/revisions\/777022554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777022531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777022531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777022531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}