\n“Mass demand is growing to record highs,” analysts at JP Morgan said last week. “The pace that this recovery is occurring without any discernible rise in promotion suggests it’s a genuine demand recovery, not artificially pulled forward.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nMacau officials are hoping infrastructure improvements assists in future growth. Along with a new ferry terminal near the Cotai Strip, the 2018 summer opening of the multibillion-dollar mega bridge that will reduce auto travel time from Hong Kong to Macau from four hours to just 45 minutes should bring new visitors to the enclave.<\/p>\n
Entry Concerns<\/b><\/h2>\n
Gross gaming revenue and Macau visitor arrivals are both up in 2018 with one quarter of the year in the books.<\/p>\n
Macau Travel Industry Council President Andy Wu Keng Kuong told local news agencies this week that the Special Administrative Region (SAR) government needs to be prepared to handle large quantities of visitors 356 days a year, as compared to only at peak times like Golden Week.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t foresee there would be a jump in the number of tourists coming last weekend” Wu told the Macau News Agency<\/i>. “Related government departments should study more data in order to better organize and prepare for the growth of tourists.”<\/p>\n
Wu believes room rates during major holidays, which are of course at premium levels, has some mainlanders postponing their trips to off-peak times such as mid-April.<\/p>\n
The travel industry president is urging the government to improve border crossing procedures, and look to invest in new public transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Macau visitor arrivals totaled more than 8.5 million in the first quarter of 2018, an 8.6 percent increase on the same three-month period in 2017. March was an exceptionally strong period, as tourism traffic jumped more than nine percent due to the month having an extra Saturday in 2018 compared to the previous year. Visitor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":76212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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