Visitor arrivals bounced 5.5 percent through the first two months thanks to the Spring Festival, and Macau has managed to maintain its uppity pace through June.<\/p>\n
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In addition to visitors from Mainland China, Macau is welcoming more international travelers than in 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe small island nation of Taiwan continues to send the most foreigners to Macau, with more than 5.2 million people making the two-hour flight.<\/p>\n
South Korea is also partly responsible for the surge in 2017 Macau visitation, with 4,34 million Koreans visiting Macau this year, up a whopping 38.7 percent compared 2016.<\/p>\n
Additional popular origins of Macau’s guests include Japan (1.59 million people, up 15 percent), the United States (926,000, up 1.5 percent), and Canada (373,000 million, up 2.4 percent).<\/p>\n
Rebound, But Not Solid Ground<\/h2>\n
All present data point to a Macau recovery, or at the very least, stabilization.<\/p>\n
Amid Chinese President Xi Jinping’s crusade against corruption, Macau’s gaming win plummeted from more than $45 billion in 2013 to $27.75 billion last year. But these numbers appear to be on the rebound.<\/p>\n
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Through June, casino revenue is more than $3 billion ahead of last year. Paired with the increased numbers of visitors, and an alleged easing of Jinping’s crackdown on VIP junket tours, a sense of optimism has returned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\nIn recent months, however, Macau casinos have been forced to incorporate facial recognition technology at ATMs and set limits on customer withdrawals. Gambling venues have also cracked down on proxy betting.<\/p>\n
A gaming environment deemed “too strict” could lead to fewer visitor arrivals, particularly from the still-coveted international VIP segment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Macau welcomed more than 15 million visitors between January and June 2017, a 5.4 percent gain compared to visitor numbers for the first half of 2016. Even better for Macau tourism interests, more than eight million stayed overnight, a 13 percent year-over-year increase. The data supplied by the Macau Statistics and Census Service provided a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":55285,"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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