The number of people visiting Macau has fallen dramatically over the first three days of the Chinese New Year Golden Week holiday period, with just 30,413 visitor arrivals between Thursday and Saturday.
The figure represents an 80.8% decline than the same period last year and is almost 50% lower than the 58,345 visitors who arrived over the first three days of the October Golden Week.
Macao Government Tourism Office director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes flagged expectations of between 16,000 and 20,000 visitor arrivals per day.
Instead, just 8,162 people arrived in Macau last Thursday and 9,058 on Friday before Saturday saw those numbers climb to 13,193.
Hopes of a strong Chinese New Year for Macau’s casino operators were dashed…