China’s National Immigration Administration announced on Thursday that it's going to ease restrictions on package tour visa applications to Macau, with the new policy to come into effect next Monday, May 15th.

A Macau travel agency has raised concerns about visa restrictions, particularly for visitors from Vietnam, as Macau's tourism authority aims to promote inbound package tours from overseas.

Macau authorities are easing measures for entry to mainland China for visitors coming from Hong Kong, aimed at further improving circulation between the SARs and the mainland and encouraging more multi-destination tourism.

Macau saw a near-30 percent drop in the number of gaming-related crimes in 2022, totaling just 965, as entry restrictions limited the flow of punters into the territory.

Macau welcomed nearly 40,000 visitors on its first day after eliminating entry requirements, the highest number of visitor entries since the outbreak in June of 2022. Macau’s tourism bureau says that it expects visitation numbers to continue to rise as it ramps up its promotional campaigns ahead of the Chinese New Year holiday.

A return to pre-pandemic visitation is on the horizon for Macau, as authorities announced that all entry restrictions would be scrapped starting January 8th.

Macau is lifting all travel restrictions starting from January 8th, no longer requiring negative nucleic acid testing for visitors entering from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, despite around 70 percent of the population having contracted COVID.

Hong Kong dropped, as of Wednesday all restrictions on arrivals who test negative ending the 0+0 quarantine scheme as part of a larger shift in policy at the national level ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year celebrations.

The Macau casino sector is reeling again on Monday after China showed that the longstanding zero-tolerance COVID policy is still very much in effect, CFRA Research shows.

Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd reported a net loss of $251.46 million, for the quarter ended on June 30 heavily impacted by the pandemic and the restrictions imposed across mainland China and Macau.