{"id":8504,"date":"2020-07-28T21:59:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T21:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=8504"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:17:24","slug":"no-negotiations-for-return-of-ivs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/no-negotiations-for-return-of-ivs","title":{"rendered":"No negotiations for return of  IVS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although the quarantine exemption for Macau residents has been extended to all Guangdong, there\u2019s still no news on the return of individual visas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- &nbsp;As of today (Wednesday), the quarantine exception for Macau residents initialy granted for nine cities will be extended to the whole of Guangdong province. However, Macau authorities have confirmed there are still no negotiations with mainland China to bring back the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) for travellers to Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director of the <strong><em>Macao Government Tourism Office<\/em><\/strong> (MGTO), Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said: \u201cSince July 15, they\u2019ve resumed tour groups between provinces, but they are limited to mainland China and do not include Macau.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to GGRAsia, she said: \u201cCurrently, we are all waiting. I hope that Macau can convey confidence to all the different authorities and that they consider resuming visas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Individual visas were suspended in January due to the Covid-19 pandemic. They were a major source of leisure traveller arrivals into Macau \u2013 an important contribution to income for Macau casinos and junket operators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysts see reintroduction of the scheme as vital for the <strong><em><a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-mainland-visitors-unlikely-to-return-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">return of Chinese high-rollers<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the quarantine exemption for Macau residents has been extended to all Guangdong, there\u2019s still no news on the return of individual visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8506,"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 has extended its quarantine exemption for residents to the entire Guangdong province, yet there remains no indication of the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) for mainland Chinese travelers resuming. This continued suspension significantly impacts Macau's gaming sector, particularly its casinos and junket operators, who rely heavily on IVS for high-roller visitation and associated GGR.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, GGRAsia","focusai_location":"Macau, Guangdong, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected quarterly GGR impact for Macau's integrated resorts, specifically from the continued suspension of the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) for mainland Chinese high-rollers?"},{"label":"Operator Strategy Shift","query":"How are Macau's major gaming operators recalibrating their B2C marketing and junket partnership strategies in light of the prolonged IVS suspension and its implications for VIP segment recovery?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[12415,257,5980],"class_list":["post-8504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-guangdong","tag-macau","tag-visas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777009199,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions\/777009199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}