Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, the head of the Macao Government Tourism Office, says average daily visitor totals are now at about 50 percent of their pre-pandemic levels.
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Mainland Chinese are the biggest spenders, followed by tourists from Taiwan and Hong Kong, with shopping topping the expenditure list.
Sailing frequencies have surged with the post-pandemic normalisation of travel, but officials say vessels are still not at maximum capacity.
The average daily totals easily exceeded government estimates for the five-day ‘golden week’ period and point to the continued recovery of the tourism sector.
The extended Labour Day break is the first long holiday in mainland China since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Launched as a tourism promotion in mid-January, the ticket giveaway has been a tremendous success, leading to big upswings in visitor numbers from our sister SAR.
Only 2 in every 100 visitors to Macao are international arrivals – a percentage that the hospitality sector hopes to boost.
With the city’s tourism sector picking up, measures are being implemented to combat excessive prices for hotel rooms being quoted on online booking platforms.
Officials say that many stayed at least three days, giving a boost to the city’s tourism sector as it seeks to recover from the Covid-19 slump.
