Post-Covid: Macau’s biggest gambling Hub receives thousands of tourists

During the Lunar New Year holiday, Macau, the world’s biggest gambling hub, experienced a vibrant atmosphere with tens of thousands of tourists filling its casinos and picturesque cobbled streets. This lively scene was a stark contrast to the shortage of visitors seen since 2020. If you’re looking for excitement and entertainment, why not มาสนุกด้วยกันที่ UFABET

The government of Macau said in a statement that it recorded over 71,000 highest visitors on Monday. Macau has seen a resurgence of tourists from mainland China since January 8 after the special Chinese administrative region dropped all COVID-19 testing requirements for inbound travellers from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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“I come here to gamble; it’s good to see people in Macau. It was lifeless during the lockdown and not very good,” said Lam, a man who travelled to Macau from Jiangmen in nearby Guangdong province in southern China. Over 94% of visitors to Macau over the first three days of the Lunar New Year, Jan. 21-23, came from mainland China and the neighbouring special administrative region Hong Kong. The government said that average daily visitor arrivals reached over 51,000, a year-on-year surge of 217%.

The influx of tourists into the former Portuguese colony, which has had only a trickle of tourists since the pandemic, comes after Beijing reopened its borders with the rest of the world for the first time in three years in January. Macau had only 15,000 average daily visits in 2022.

“It’s very good that the Chinese government has reopened the border again, so I can go anywhere freely with no thoughts of quarantine and visit my relatives,” said a woman visiting from Hong Kong, who gave her surname as Wong.

The executives of the hotel resort said Many hotels had been sold out for Macau’s Las Vegas-style strip for the holiday period; inside the city’s opulent casino resorts, visitors milled through stores such as Sands China’s gondola-filled Venetian property. In contrast, others clamoured for pictures at popular tourist spots, including the landmark Ruins of St Paul’s.

Reuters/P.A