Macau government is expecting that for the next seven days the tourists number increase a 9% compared to the 2018 Chinese New Year celebration. Maria Helena De Senna Fernandes, Director for the Macao Government Tourism Office, explains that the recently-opened Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, which connects Macau to Hong Kong, is to serve as a major element in helping her city to boost its year-on-year Chinese New Year tourism numbers. However, she purportedly also cautioned that the eventually tally could be negatively impacted by unpredictable elements such as the weather.
Macau welcomed in excess of 960,000 tourists for last year’s edition of Chinese New Year, which represented a 6.5% swell year-on-year and had surpassed an earlier forecast from Senna Fernandes. It additionally detailed that this had led to the city recording an average hotel occupancy rate of 94.5% with the tally for five-star properties reaching an even higher 95.9%.
By way of comparison, the source continued that its own research had determined that over half of Macau’s 23 five-star hotels would be fully booked for the upcoming Chinese New Year period with occupancy typically set to peak from Thursday.
With these numbers and the 200 extra flights that the Macau International Airport Company Limited proclaimed intends to add, the government hopes that casinos industry take out an interest piece of the cake.
