Macau Reopens to Foreign Citizens
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- Tomorrow is the first day that foreign citizens from 41 countries will be allowed to enter Macau since the start of this crisis. The travelers will still have to undergo seven days of quarantine in a designated hotel followed by another three days of self-health monitoring.
- Control of theme park Huis Ten Bosch Park in Japan is being transferred to Hong Kong-based asset management firm PAG.
- IHG Hotels & Resorts announced the opening of its 600th hotel in Greater China with the debut of Kimpton Bamboo Grove Suzhou.
The Macau Statistics and Census Service said six hotels in Macau stopped providing accommodation services to the public in July, during the Covid outbreak. That brought the region to 115 hotels and guesthouses, and the biggest drop since the Statistics and Census Service began collecting such data in January 2019. The statement did not clarify if the six establishments actually closed their doors or if they were designated for medical observation and self-management of health and excluded from the compilation of results. The average hotel occupancy rate in July was only 38.1%, down 25.6 percentage points from July in 2021. That was the fifth consecutive month of declines in year-on-year terms. The number of visitors to Macau fell -98.8% year on year in July.
Tomorrow is the first day that foreign citizens from 41 countries will be allowed to enter Macau since the start of this crisis. The travelers will still have to undergo seven days of quarantine in a designated
