Macau Tourism Office Optimistic on ’22 Arrivals, Expects Over 10M Visits

Macau continues to act toward a strong retrieval from the COVID-19 pandemic. While 2020 was a devastating year, and 2021 hasn’t brought backrest the numbers that the city had hoped, all eyes are at present on 2022. The city’s casinos are looking for for to a greater extent traffic. According to Macau’s touristry board, they might catch it.

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) believes 2022 will convey a substantial improvement over 2021. Calophyllum longifolium Helena de Selena Fernandes, the agency’s director, told the pressure over the weekend that she believes the keep down of arrivals next twelvemonth could stretch 10 million.

Should her prevision amount true, the fig would follow almost 70% greater than what was recorded across the first off 10 months of 2021.

This October, somewhat to a greater extent than six zillion people crossed into Macau. This was a 32.2% increase o'er the same full stop as lowest year. By the finish of this year, the MGTO top dog hopes that septet jillion arrivals testament be recorded inwards Macau.

Omicron Variant Causes Uncertainly

Currently, Macau and mainland Communist China experience a quarantine-free trip agreement. This could shortly include Hong Kong, which is working on improving locomote betwixt the city and parts of the mainland. As more COVID-19 vaccines are administered and the figure of positive degree cases falls, thither is more understanding to be optimistic.

However, the unexampled Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus could go an issue. Several countries experience implemented unexampled jaunt restrictions to donjon it from spreading.

Because governments now know how to test for COVID-19 to a greater extent in effect and rapidly, this will drama a paint role inwards facilitating or limiting travel regulations header into 2022. The World Health Organization (WHO) asserts that stock PCR tests canful regulate Omicron infections, as good as the other variants, with other testing methods currently beingness explored.

Macau’s COVID Restrictions

Recently, Macau brought plunk for the seven-day stop for a negative COVID-19 test, relaxing the 48-hour requirement. However, that could follow changed once again inward lightsome of the new Omicron variant.

If it doesn’t, Macau could reckon considerable back up for its gaming market. The loosening of move around rules, should they hold up firm, has allowed the governance to forecast as a great deal as $16.2 billion in receipts gaming revenue for its financial year 2022.

That would noneffervescent live significantly cancelled from where Macau was deuce years ago. However, it’s an improvement. Last year, the fig was less than half that amount.

New WHO International Pandemic Treaty Coming

From Mon through Wednesday, nations will get together inward Genf to discuss an international accord on how to trade with the next pandemic. The meeting, taking shoes this week, should formalize Sunday’s bill of exchange decision.

An arrangement was reached in conclusion Billy Sunday by the members of the WHO. It testament kick-start the treat toward creating a treaty on pandemics that testament precis how to business deal with the next world-wide crisis.

Member countries lately in agreement(p) to establish an intergovernmental body responsible for drafting and negotiating the WHO pandemic preparedness, response and bar agreement.