MGTO director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes
As the Labor Day Golden Week starts May 1, the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has forecast average daily visitor arrivals of at least 70,000 and up to 90% hotel occupancy rates.
Following the Chinese New Year, the Labor Day Golden Week is the mainland’s second-highest peak travel period, with hundreds of millions of tourists from across the country visiting each year prior to the pandemic.
MGTO director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes believes the upcoming Golden Week will see figures which will be as good as, or even higher, than those recorded during the Easter break, which totaled around 481,000 visitors during the six-day period.
“According to our current estimation, we hope to reach an average of 70,000 daily visitor arrivals or more,” the MGTO director said, adding that the hotel booking rate had already “surpassed 60% last week.”
“We believe that this number will [improve] during the May 1st Golden Week and that the hotel occupancy rate can maintain between 80% to 90%,” Senna Fernandes said.
Staff Reporter
