Despite the gaming tax decline and the necessity to use reserves, Macau plans to continue its welfare spending to help residents mitigate the financial burden of the ongoing pandemic.<\/p>\n
A bit of welcomed news was delivered by Macau’s Public Security Police this week. It said its tally of arrivals and departures for the seven days ending August 24 hinted at a rebound. Total border traffic exceeded two million people.<\/p>\n
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The traveler count includes Macau residents coming and going to the mainland. But border agents say more than 207,000 nonresident border crossings were counted during the week, which was up more than 43% from the previous seven days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) this week announced it would resume its mainland marketing campaigns in an effort to return visitors to the casino destination.<\/p>\n
The MGTO this weekend will begin its “Experience Macau, Unlimited” roadshow across the Greater Bay Area. The roadshow hyping Macau is set for Hong Kong and nine cities in the Guangdong Province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Macau casino tax receipts through seven months of 2022 totaled MOP13.96 billion (US$1.73 billion), a more than 37% year-over-year decline. Macau’s six casino operators saw a slight recovery initiate in 2021 after the pandemic’s most limiting year in 2020. But China and Macau’s maintaining of “zero-COVID,” a policy that prompts restrictive measures in response to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":228497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[82061,82124,51],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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