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Post by Blitz on Aug 8, 2024 6:22:02 GMT -5
Macau sees daily visitor arrivals reach 120,000 for first seven days of August by Pierce Chan Thu 8 Aug 2024 at 13:45 www.asgam.com/index.php/2024/08/08/macau-sees-daily-visitor-arrivals-reach-120000-for-first-seven-days-of-august/According to provisional data from the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Macau welcomed a total of nearly 843,000 visitor arrivals in the first seven days of August, with a daily average of 120,000, an increase of 14.3% compared with the same period last year. Of those, about 152,000 visitor arrivals were recorded last Saturday 3 August, which is the highest single-day visitor figure of the summer. This represents 97.8% recovery to the highest single-day figure from the summer of 2019 of around 155,000 visitors. The MGTO also released the tourism figures for July, which show 3,028,000 visitor arrivals with a daily average of 97,683 – an increase of 9.7% compared with the same period in 2023 and back to 85.8% of July 2019. The 19.75 million visitor arrivals from January to July this year also represents recovery to 82.9% of the 23.82 million visitors during in the same period of 2019 and is 37.1% higher versus the same period in 2023. The MGTO said it expects to see various measures introduced by China’s Central Government, including an increase in the duty-free allowance for mainland visitors, providing greater incentive to visit Macau. “During the summer holidays in August, the MGTO will continue to follow up on various complementary measures to make the best use of the Central Government’s initiatives for the benefit of Macau, and organize and support a number of visitor attraction activities to attract in-depth tours to the region so as to further enrich the tourism experience,” it said.
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Post by Blitz on Aug 8, 2024 6:23:22 GMT -5
Macau daily visit average leaps 22pct to 120k in early Aug Aug 08, 2024 Newsdesk Latest News, Macau, Top of the deck www.ggrasia.com/macau-daily-visit-average-leaps-22pct-to-120k-in-early-aug/Macau daily visit average leaps 22pct to 120k in early Aug The daily average of visitors to Macau has risen by about 22 percent in the first seven days of August, relative to the daily average in July, according to data from Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) issued on Thursday. The latest daily average is 120,000 versus 98,000 across July. The tourism bureau suggested the summer holiday season – encompassing school holidays in China – might be a factor in the increase. Macau logged nearly 843,000 visitor arrivals from August 1 to August 7 inclusive, generating that 120,000 average across the period. Last Saturday (August 3) Macau actually recorded circa 152,000 arrivals, hitting a single-day record for what the tourism bureau called the “summer holiday” period that started in July. The city logged nearly 3.03 million visitor arrivals in July, a tally that represented a 9.7-percent year-on-year increase. The July inbound visitor tally also represented an 85.8-percent recovery of the same summer month in pre-pandemic 2019, said MGTO. The provisional July data took Macau’s aggregate visitor arrivals for the first seven months of this year to nearly 19.75 million, 37.1 percent higher than the same period last year and a 82.9-percent recovery of the equivalent period in 2019, the MGTO statement noted. Official July data are due to be released later this month by Macau’s Statistics and Census Service. In August 2019 Macau’s average daily visitor volume of the month had been 116,874, according to data from the census service. Macau International Airport Co Ltd, the operator of the city’s air hub, said recently it forecast a 1.4-million passenger throughput for July and August, which would be a 78.3 percent recovery relative to the equivalent period in 2019.
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