Macao’s authorities are aiming for an increase of almost 5 million visitors this year, when compared with 2023.
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The rise must be set against last year’s dismal performance and the first quarter GDP figures, which were the first growth Macao had experienced since late 2021.
Numbers are better than in March, but still pale in comparison to pre-novel coronavirus April 2019 when more than 3 million sampled Macao’s attractions.
Latest figures show visitor numbers dropped 19.6% last month, 30.3% in annual terms, as city feels the pinch from Covid-19 and economic downturn.
Most come from the mainland, and more than half from the Greater Bay Area; but totals are still way behind July 2019’s three-and-a-half million.
Most visitors still come from the mainland; but visitor numbers still have a long way to go before returning to pre-Covid-19 ‘normal’ .
Macao recorded 5.89 million visitor arrivals last year, a year-on-year drop of 85.0%.
Macao’s number of visitor arrivals surged by 97.7% month-to-month to 449,085 in September.
Macao’s visitor arrivals rose 206.9% month-to-month but fell 93.7% year-on-year to 227,113 in August, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Monday.
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