{"id":777038035,"date":"2026-02-16T08:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777038035"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:23:08","slug":"macau-sees-more-than-260000-visitors-at-start-of-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-sees-more-than-260000-visitors-at-start-of-chinese-new-year","title":{"rendered":"Macau sees more than 260,000 visitors at start of Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year\u2019s Chinese New Year holiday period runs from February 15 to 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- Preliminary figures from Macau\u2019s Public Security Police<\/strong> indicate that more than 264,000 visitors<\/strong> entered the city over the weekend for the start of Chinese New Year, which this year will run from February 15 to 23.\u00a0On the first day of the holiday period, there were 132,428 arrivals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most travellers entered via the Border Gate checkpoint (111,494 arrivals), followed by the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (54,400) and the Hengqin checkpoint (50,687).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong>, the director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) forecast a daily influx of 158,000 to 175,000 arrivals<\/a> during this year\u2019s Chinese New Year holiday. She said Macau was likely to receive between 1.4 and 1.5 million tourists over the whole nine-day Lunar New Year period, surpassing\u00a0last year\u2019s tally of 1.31 million<\/a>\u00a0amid a longer holiday period and a 5 per cent yearly increase in Macau\u2019s budget for entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Events include the Golden Dragon Parade on February 17 and 18, and three large-scale drone and fireworks shows, which will combine pyrotechnics with 3,888 drones overlooking Macau Tower on February 19, February 23 and March 3. There will be six designated viewing areas across the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, MGTO will roll out the ZAPE Gallop Gala community event from February 13 to March 1, linking Chinese New Year and Valentine\u2019s Day celebrations through installations, promotions and activities aimed at boosting visitor spending in local districts. Online and offline promotional initiatives, including interactive games and lucky draws via MGTO\u2019s WeChat mini-programme will also be launched.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> MGTO expects between 1.4 and 1.5 million tourists over Chinese New Year holiday<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s Chinese New Year holiday period runs from February 15 to 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777038041,"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 over 264,000 visitor arrivals during the initial weekend of the Chinese New Year holiday, with the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) forecasting 1.4 to 1.5 million tourists over the nine-day period. This projection surpasses last year's tally, supported by a longer holiday and increased entertainment budget, alongside various promotional events and activities aimed at boosting visitor spending.","focusai_entities":"Macau\u2019s Public Security Police, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Macao Government Tourism Office, MGTO","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong, Zhuhai, Hengqin","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.9), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis?","query":"How will this projected visitor influx translate into GGR growth for Macau's concessionaires, specifically differentiating between mass market and premium mass segments?"},{"label":"Operational Optimization Strategies?","query":"What specific operational adjustments and capacity enhancements are Macau's integrated resorts implementing to optimize revenue capture and enhance visitor experience during this peak holiday period?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[25105,257,24680],"class_list":["post-777038035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-chinese-new-year","tag-macau","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777038035","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=777038035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777038035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777038077,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777038035\/revisions\/777038077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777038041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777038035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777038035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777038035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}