{"id":777038245,"date":"2026-02-20T07:54:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777038245"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:13:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:13:32","slug":"macau-posts-record-visitor-tally-amid-chinese-new-year-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-posts-record-visitor-tally-amid-chinese-new-year-surge","title":{"rendered":"Macau posts record visitor tally amid Chinese New Year surge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The city recorded more than 227,943 visitor arrivals on the fifth day of the holiday break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- Immigration data released by the Public Security Police Force (PSP)<\/strong> indicates that a 227,943 visitors entered the city on Thursday (February 19), the fifth day of Chinese New Year<\/a>, which runs from February 15 to 23. The figure sets a new all-time high for daily inbound visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city\u2019s border checkpoints recorded a 750,114 cross-border movements on Thursday. Inbound movements, including non-visitors, totalled 388,456. Outbound movements reached 361,658, including 220,785 visitors. Most travellers entered through the Border Gate, followed by Hengqin Port and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau recorded 779,566 visitor arrivals over the first five days of the Lunar New Year Golden Week, an average of 155,913 per day.\u00a0Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong>, the director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), had forecast a\u00a0daily influx of 158,000 to 175,000 arrivals<\/a>\u00a0and between 1.4 and 1.5 million over the whole nine-day holiday period. Last year\u2019s tally was 1.31 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Macau sees more than 260,000 visitors at start of Chinese New Year<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

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