The Macau Travel Industry Council predicts the city will welcome more than 300,000 tourists during the three-day Easter holiday starting on 29 March, according to reports.
The council’s president, Andy Wu Kong Kuong, told the Macao Daily News he believed a daily average of more than 100,000 visitors was feasible. For comparison, last Easter’s daily average was just under 84,000.
Easter is not a public holiday in mainland China, but it is in Hong Kong – Macao’s second biggest tourism market and usually Macao’s main source of visitors during the period.
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The Chinese festival of Ching Ming comes close on the heels of Easter, taking place on 4 April. Ching Ming is a public holiday in the mainland as well as in both SARs.
Last month’s Lunar New Year holiday saw a daily average just shy of 170,000 visitors – very close to that seen during the same period in 2019, the last full year before Covid-19 decimated the tourism industry.
Macao’s daily visitor arrivals averaged 92,300 in January, an 84 percent recovery when compared to January 2019.
