{"id":777041379,"date":"2026-04-24T09:47:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777041379"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:25:41","slug":"macau-tourism-rise-in-q1-2026-with-over-11-million-arrivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-tourism-rise-in-q1-2026-with-over-11-million-arrivals","title":{"rendered":"Macau tourism rise in Q1 2026 with over 11 million arrivals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The city recorded a 13.7 per cent year-on-year increase in visitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.\u2013 Macau\u2019s tourism sector has started 2026 on a high note with 11.21 million visitors in the first quarter, according to the latest data from the Statistics and Census Service. The figure represents a 13.7 per cent increase compared to the same period last year. March saw 3.39 million arrivals, a 10.6 per cent year-on-year rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitors from mainland China remain the primary driver, accounting for 8.39 million arrivals (74.8 per cent of the total) in the first quarter, a 16.4 per cent increase from last year. Independent travel via the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) rose by 18.4 per cent to 4.75 million entries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other regional markets also showed positive movement. Taiwanese visits rose by 29.1 per cent to over 285,000, while arrivals from Hong Kong saw a modest increase of 1.8 per cent, reaching 1.78 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International visits totalled 755,756, up 10.7 per cent. Visits from Thailand rose 70.5 per cent, and those from India by 41.3 per cent. Conversely, arrivals from Indonesia saw a decline of nearly 14 per cent. Same-day arrivals grew by 20.3 per cent to 7 million, while overnight stays grew by 4.1 per cent to 4.21 million.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"see-also-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/1640096670Macau-aeropuerto-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-article__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href='https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-surpasses-10-million-visitors-in-q1-secretary-for-economy-and-finance-says'>Macau surpassed 10 million visitors in Q1, secretary for Economy and Finance says<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city recorded a 13.7 per cent year-on-year increase in visitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":26764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"","focusai_entities":"","focusai_location":"","focusai_target_profile":"","focusai_suggestions":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,24628,158],"tags":[257,24680,24845],"class_list":["post-777041379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-highlight-of-the-week","category-slider-home","tag-macau","tag-tourism","tag-visitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777041379","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\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777041379"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777041379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777041393,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777041379\/revisions\/777041393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777041379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777041379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777041379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}