{"id":777025816,"date":"2025-04-28T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777025816"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:30:08","slug":"maucau-expects-up-to-700000-visitors-for-labour-day-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/maucau-expects-up-to-700000-visitors-for-labour-day-break","title":{"rendered":"Maucau expects up to 700,000 visitors for Labour Day break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) expects numbers to surpass last year’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.-\u00a0Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong>, the director of Macau\u2019s Government Tourism Office (MGTO),\u00a0has said the city may see an average of 127,000 to 140,000 visitors a day this Labour Day holiday. Fernandes expects between 635,000 and 700,000 arrivals during the holiday period from May 1 to May 5 inclusive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A figure of 635,000 would represent an increase of almost 5 per cent in year-on-year terms. Fernandes’ highest estimate would be a 15.7 per cent increase. In 2024, 604,395 visitors arrived in Macau during\u00a0the Labour Day golden week<\/a>\u00a0from May 1 to 5.\u00a0That represented\u00a084 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0of what was recorded during the holiday in 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) reported that the average hotel occupancy rate was 89.2 per cent, a rise of 4.5 percentage points year-on-year.\u00a0The peak day was on May 2, with 95.1 per cent occupancy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, director of MGTO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Macau visitor numbers rise in Q1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the first quarter of the year, 9,862,665 people visited Macau. That\u2019s an increase of 11.1 per cent in year-on-year terms. Same-day visitors (5,823,384) rose by 21.5 per cent year-on-year, and overnight visitors (4,039,281) dropped by 1.1 per cent. The average length of stay decreased by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.1 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mainland Chinese tourists <\/strong>accounted for 7,206,035 arrivals, a rise of 14.5 per cent year-on-year. Those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (4,011,208) rose by 15.6 per cent. Some 381,172 visited Macau under the \u201cone trip per week measure\u201d while 97,957 travelled under the \u201cmultiple-entry measure\u201d. Mainland visitors travelling under the \u201ctourist group multi-entry measure\u201d totalled 28,671.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitors from the Taiwan region reached 221,146, up 21.6 per cent year-on-year, while the number of tourists from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (1,753,042) decreased by 3.6 per cent. International visitor arrivals<\/strong> reached 682,442, up 16.9 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Macau’s The 13 Hotel back on sale<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) expects numbers to surpass last year’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777025678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Macau Government Tourism Office forecasts a significant increase in visitor arrivals for the upcoming Labour Day holiday, potentially reaching 700,000, surpassing last year's figures. This follows a robust Q1 2024 performance with overall visitor numbers up 11.1% year-on-year, driven primarily by Mainland Chinese tourists, despite a slight decrease in overnight stays and average length of stay.","focusai_entities":"Macau Government Tourism Office, MGTO, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Statistics and Census Service, DSEC","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Projected GGR Uplift?","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's concessionaires during the Labour Day holiday, considering the visitor forecast and historical spend patterns?"},{"label":"Non-Gaming Capex Impact?","query":"How will the observed decrease in average length of stay and the rise in same-day visitors impact the strategic allocation of non-gaming capital expenditure by integrated resort operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777025816","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\/777025816","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=777025816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777025859,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025816\/revisions\/777025859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777025678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777025816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777025816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777025816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}