{"id":9812,"date":"2020-09-09T09:13:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T09:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=9812"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:00:44","slug":"air-macau-to-increase-flights-to-chinese-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/air-macau-to-increase-flights-to-chinese-cities","title":{"rendered":"Air Macau to increase flights to Chinese cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau is hoping tourism will boost the SAR&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Air Macau will increase the frequency of flights to destinations in mainland china after the resumption of Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) travel permits from September 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The airline has said it will resume flights to eight destinations in mainland China from the same date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0number of flights per week is expected to rise from the current 54 flights per week to 230 in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guangdong residents have been able to apply for IVS visas since August 26, but the rest of China has to wait until the September 23. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau&#8217;s government is hoping a return of tourism from mainland China can help boost the city&#8217;s economy. It has\u00a0launched\u00a0a spending-stimulus scheme for mainland visitors and aims to encourage longer stays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau is hoping tourism will boost the SAR&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9816,"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 is set to experience a significant increase in tourism from mainland China following the resumption of Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) travel permits from September 23. Air Macau will substantially increase flight frequencies, while the Macau government has initiated a spending-stimulus scheme to encourage longer visitor stays. This initiative aims to bolster the SAR's economy, heavily reliant on its gaming and hospitality sectors.","focusai_entities":"Air Macau","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Guangdong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Projected GGR Uplift?","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's integrated resorts following the full IVS resumption, and how does this impact their capital expenditure plans?"},{"label":"Long-term Tourism Strategy?","query":"Beyond flight frequency, what specific government incentives or regulatory adjustments are being considered to sustain long-term tourism growth and diversify Macau's economic base?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,157,16338],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-9812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9812","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=9812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9830,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9812\/revisions\/9830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}