{"id":777035644,"date":"2025-12-05T07:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777035644"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:18:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:18:43","slug":"tourism-in-macau-european-visitors-on-track-to-recover-pre-pandemic-levels-mgto-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tourism-in-macau-european-visitors-on-track-to-recover-pre-pandemic-levels-mgto-says","title":{"rendered":"European visitors to Macau on track to reach pre-pandemic levels, MGTO says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The European visitor market has reached 80 per cent of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, the director of Macau\u2019s Government Tourism Office (MGTO), has expressed confidence that European visitors to Macau will reach pre-pandemic levels.\u00a0Speaking to reporters at the 50th Congress of the Portuguese Association of Travel and Tourism Agencies (APAVT), she said visitors to Macau from Europe had recovered to 80 per cent of 2019 levels in the January-October period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said that attracting foreign visitors remains a key priority and that the tourism office will increase its promotional efforts in Europe next year, attending trade fairs and developing new tourism products in a bid to diversify the city\u2019s tourism structure<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helena de Senna Fernandes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Statistics and Census Service of Macau (DSEC) reported that the number of visitor arrivals to Macau reached 3.4 million in October 2025<\/a>. That\u2019s a rise of 10.8 per cent year-on-year. In the first ten months of 2025, number of visitor arrivals rose by 14.1 per cent year-on-year to 33,143,547; same-day visitors (19,382,049) and overnight visitors (13,761,498) grew by 24.1 per cent and 2.4 per cent respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau\u2019s GGR for the\u00a0first ten months was MOP205.43bn (US$25.64bn), an 8 per cent increase year-on-year but 16.7 per cent below the January-October period in 2019, when GGR totalled MOP246.74bn (US$30.8bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Macau moves awards contract to turn former greyhound venue into public sports park<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The European visitor market has reached 80 per cent of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777028006,"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's European visitor market has recovered to 80% of 2019 levels, with the MGTO planning increased promotional efforts in Europe to diversify tourism. The Statistics and Census Service of Macau (DSEC) reported projected visitor arrivals for January-October 2025 at over 33 million, a 14.1% year-on-year increase. Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for the same 2025 period is reported at MOP205.43bn (US$25.64bn), an 8% year-on-year rise, though still 16.7% below 2019 pre-pandemic levels.","focusai_entities":"Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Portuguese Association of Travel and Tourism Agencies (APAVT), Statistics and Census Service of Macau (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, Europe, Portugal","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"2025 GGR Performance","query":"What specific factors are projected to drive the 8% year-on-year GGR increase reported for January-October 2025, and how does this align with operator-specific forecasts?"},{"label":"European Market Impact","query":"What are the anticipated GGR contributions from the European visitor segment in 2025, and how will MGTO's enhanced promotional efforts specifically target high-value gaming patrons?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[25039,257,24680],"class_list":["post-777035644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-european-market","tag-macau","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777035644","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777035644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777035644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777035678,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777035644\/revisions\/777035678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777028006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777035644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777035644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777035644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}