{"id":777026071,"date":"2025-05-06T09:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T12:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777026071"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:16:59","slug":"macau-labour-day-holiday-numbers-surpass-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-labour-day-holiday-numbers-surpass-expectations","title":{"rendered":"Macau Labour Day holiday numbers surpass expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The figure was up 40.6 per cent in year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The Public Security Police has reported that 850,034 visitors arrived in Macau during the Labour Day golden week<\/strong> from May 1 to 5. That\u2019s an increase of 40.6 per cent in\u00a0year-on-year terms and surpasses the estimate of 635,000 to 700,000 forecast by Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) director\u00a0Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Average daily visitation was 170,000, up 40.8 per cent compared to last year. Daily arrivals peaked at 221,000 on Friday (May 2), the second day of the holiday period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were 379,153 border crossings via the Border Gate checkpoint between Macau and Zhuhai in Guangdong province, 155,264 via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and 135,691 via the Macau boundary crossing at Hengqin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2024, 604,395 visitors arrived in Macau during\u00a0the Labour Day golden week<\/a>.\u00a0That represented\u00a084 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0of what was recorded during the holiday in 2019.<\/p>\n\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 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

See also:<\/strong> Macau GDP dips in Q1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The figure was up 40.6 per cent in year-on-year terms.<\/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":"Macau experienced a significant surge in visitor arrivals during the Labour Day golden week, with 850,034 tourists representing a 40.6% year-on-year increase and surpassing official forecasts. This robust performance follows a positive first quarter, which saw 9.86 million visitors, although a decline in overnight stays and average length of stay suggests a shift in visitor behavior.","focusai_entities":"Public Security Police, Macau Government Tourist Office, MGTO, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes","focusai_location":"Macau, Zhuhai, Guangdong province, Hong Kong, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.98), marketing_crm (0.85), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Q2?","query":"Given the robust Labour Day Golden Week visitation and Q1 trends, what is the revised GGR forecast for Macau's integrated resorts in Q2 2024, and how does the shift towards same-day visitors influence the revenue mix?"},{"label":"Overnight Stay Strategy?","query":"With the observed decline in overnight visitors and average length of stay, what strategic adjustments are Macau's casino operators implementing to incentivize longer stays and enhance non-gaming revenue capture?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[227,23906,24680],"class_list":["post-777026071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-china","tag-macau-casinos","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777026071","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=777026071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777026071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777026110,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777026071\/revisions\/777026110"}],"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=777026071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777026071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777026071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}