Macao hopes to get 100k daily visitors during Ching Ming festival

Head of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, is certain the city will draw in 100,000 visitors a day during the upcoming Ching Ming Chinese holiday and Easter vacation period.

While Easter is a holiday season in both Hong Kong and Macau, Ching Ming is a significant holiday in mainland China, Macau’s main tourism destination.

The aim of 100,000 visitors per day during these festivals was stated by Ms. Senna Fernandes, who also said that this would be an increase from the current daily visitor numbers of 70,000 to 80,000 during non-holiday periods. During an event on Thursday, she told local media these things.

According to authorities on the mainland, this year’s Ching Ming festival will be from April 4 to April 6. Since April 4 is Hong Kong’s holiday, Macau’s second-largest source market for tourists comes from Hong Kong.

Like Ching Ming, Easter is based on the lunar calendar and this year it falls between Good Friday, March 29 and Easter Monday, April 1.

According to Ms. Senna Fernandes, while they expect more tourists during these festival periods, the volume of traffic may not be as great as it was during the Chinese New Year holiday.

Approximately 1.36 million tourists visited Macau throughout the course of the Chinese New Year vacation earlier this year, with an average of almost 170,000 visitors each day.

As to Dragon Trail International, a marketing and research enterprise catering to mainland Chinese clients, mainland Chinese tourists’ outbound journeys may not return to pre-pandemic 2019 levels until 2025. The amount of outbound travel this year may be over 80% of that of 2019.

Citing data from China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the agency claims that during this year’s Chinese New Year, 3.60 million outbound voyages were made by mainlanders, making up 57% of all outbound visits in 2019.

Travel patterns will be significantly affected by the mainland’s five-day holiday surrounding Labor Day on May 1, which is followed by the summer and the Autumn Golden Week, which includes China’s National Day on October 1. This was said by Dragon Trail International.

Original story by: GGRAsia