{"id":777042646,"date":"2026-05-26T07:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777042646"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:27:41","slug":"macau-sees-over-400000-visitor-arrivals-during-buddhas-birthday-holiday-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-sees-over-400000-visitor-arrivals-during-buddhas-birthday-holiday-period","title":{"rendered":"Macau sees over 400,000 visitor arrivals during Buddha\u2019s Birthday holiday period"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The city received an average of more than 134,000 visitors per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The <strong>Public Security Police Force (PSP)<\/strong> has reported that 403,000 visitors entered Macau over the three-day <strong>Buddha\u2019s Birthday break<\/strong>, which ran from May 23 until yesterday (May 25).\u00a0That&#8217;s an average of more than 134,000 visitors per day, while there were 420,000 outbound travellers over the same period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau\u2019s various border checkpoints recorded nearly 2.18m inbound and outbound movements over the three days. Yesterday (May 25), the city recorded 103,000 inbound visitors and 119,000 outbound, with total movements across all checkpoints reaching 672,000. Most tourists entered Macau via the Border Gate checkpoint, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, and the Hengqin checkpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)\u00a0has reported that the number of\u00a0<strong>visitor arrivals<\/strong>\u00a0to Macau\u00a0<strong>increased by 11.3 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0year-on-year to <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-11-3-in-april\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-11-3-in-april\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3,441,396 in April<\/a>. Same-day visitors (2,095,953) and overnight visitors (1,345,443) rose by 19.4 per cent and 0.6 per cent, respectively. The average length of stay shortened by 0.1 day to 1 day exactly, while that of overnight visitors (2.3 days) remained unchanged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/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\/2026\/05\/4d7a5316-e0f0-4dc7-988a-fb680af20257-300x200.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-visitor-arrivals-up-11-3-in-april'>Macau visitor arrivals up 11.3% in April<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city received an average of more than 134,000 visitors per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"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 recorded 403,000 visitors during the three-day Buddha's Birthday break, averaging over 134,000 daily movements, alongside 2.18 million total border crossings. This follows an 11.3% year-on-year increase in April visitor arrivals to 3.44 million, driven primarily by same-day visitors. While overall visitor numbers are robust, the shortened average length of stay suggests a continued focus on day-trip tourism.","focusai_entities":"Public Security Police Force (PSP), Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong, Zhuhai","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Projections","query":"Given the reported visitor arrival statistics for April and the Buddha's Birthday holiday, what is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) uplift for Macau's integrated resorts, particularly considering the average length of stay dynamics?"},{"label":"Revenue Mix Impact","query":"How does the observed shortening of the average length of stay, despite increased overall arrivals, impact the revenue mix between gaming and non-gaming verticals for Macau's concessionaires, and what strategic adjustments are anticipated?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[24826,257,24680],"class_list":["post-777042646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-business","tag-macau","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777042646","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=777042646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777042646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777042651,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777042646\/revisions\/777042651"}],"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=777042646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777042646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777042646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}