Macau’s Tourism Authorities Anticipate 100k Guests a Day

The director of the Macao Authorities Tourism Workplace (MGTO), Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, expressed her hope that town might obtain 100,000 vacationers every day in the course of the upcoming Chinese language festivals Ching Ming and Easter, each vacation seasons in Macau and Hong Kong.

These holidays are essential for Macau, as mainland China, its largest vacationer market, additionally observes Ching Ming. Presently, town receives 70,000 to 80,000 non-holiday guests every day. Ms. Senna Fernandes goals to extend this quantity to 100,000.

The Ching Ming competition is a time for Chinese language individuals worldwide to pay respect to their ancestors. This yr, the competition might be noticed from April 4 to April 6 in mainland China, whereas in Hong Kong, it’ll solely be celebrated on April 4. The Easter season in Hong Kong, which additionally follows the lunar calendar, will run from March 29 (Good Friday) to April 1 (Easter Monday) this yr.

Macau’s tourism trade expects customer visitors to be decrease throughout these festivals than in the course of the Chinese language New 12 months vacation. Through the Chinese language New 12 months break from February 10 to February 17 this yr, Macau obtained virtually 1.36 million guests, averaging near 170,000 a day.

Dragon Path Worldwide, a advertising and analysis company specializing in mainland shoppers, acknowledged in a latest travel-sector overview that outbound journeys by that section may solely surpass pre-pandemic ranges of 2019 by 2025. This yr, the amount of such journeys may attain round 80 p.c of the 2019 ranges.

In keeping with figures from China’s Ministry of Tradition and Tourism, throughout this yr’s Chinese language New 12 months, 3.60 million outbound journeys had been made by mainlanders, which is 57 p.c of 2019’s 6.31 million outbound journeys.

Dragon Path Worldwide additionally identified that the mainland’s five-day vacation surrounding Labor Day on Could 1 could be an essential time for Macau’s tourism. This is able to be adopted by the summer season season and the Autumn Golden Week, which encompasses China’s Nationwide Day on October 1.