Town’s tourism chief, Helena de Senna Fernandes, anticipates resort occupancy charge surpassing 90 p.c throughout the Chinese language New 12 months (CNY) vacation interval, with each day visitation anticipated to common round 120,000, totaling an estimated 960,000 vacationer arrivals for all the eight-day competition season.
On the primary day of the Spring Competition season, February 9, CNY Day eve, roughly 67,000 guests arrived within the SAR.
Ms. Fernandes, director of the Macau Authorities Tourism Workplace (MGTO), additionally knowledgeable journalists that the climate was barely hotter on the primary day of the Lunar New 12 months, and there gave the impression to be extra folks in comparison with final 12 months (2023).
The pinnacle of the Affiliation of Macao Vacationer Brokers has additionally estimated that round 200 group excursions are anticipated to go to the SAR this Lunar New 12 months. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge surpassed the Border Gate as the principle entry level for guests to Macau, with roughly 18,208 entries reported on Friday.
Brokerage Morgan Stanley additionally predicts that the each day gaming income common within the metropolis might surge to MOP900 million ($111.7 million) per day throughout the week-long vacation – a degree that’s about 78 p.c of 2019’s and 9 p.c above final 12 months’s Golden Week figures.
Relating to the effectiveness of the “Macau Gentle Competition” in selling the nighttime financial system, Helena de Senna Fernandes acknowledged that as of December final 12 months, there have been 420,000 individuals, which she thought of higher than anticipated. She talked about that this 12 months’s occasion is distributed throughout numerous districts of Macau, which helps handle the time and movement of individuals to completely different areas for participation. In line with information, the areas of San Malo and Central are extra well-liked, and he or she believes that with a mixture of related information and expertise, when held once more on the finish of this 12 months, it will probably higher cater to the aesthetic preferences of residents and vacationers.
