Macau Expects Fewer Visitors for China's Golden Week
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China's Golden Week started with 96,671 visitors to Macau on Monday, and despite last year's high numbers, the tourism office predicts a lower daily average of 100,000 arrivals from October 1-7.
The start of China's Golden Week, actually the Eve of it, resulted in 96,671 visitor arrivals on Monday. The Macao Government Tourism Office is predicting there will be 100,000 arrivals per day to Macau between October 1 and 7. Last year over eight days, arrivals totaled 931,000 so it really is not clear why the MGTO is thinking this year is going to have 16,000 less visitors each day.
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