Macau recorded 425 meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions (MICE) events in the first quarter of 2026, unchanged from a year earlier, though total participants and attendees fell 8.7 percent year-on-year to 181,000, according to data released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
The decline came as the number of exhibitions dropped by one event year-on-year to 11, leading exhibition attendance to fall 20.0 percent to 128,000 attendees.
Despite the lower overall attendance, MICE-driven receipts for Macau’s non-gaming industries rose 29.4 percent year-on-year to MOP841 million ($104.4 million) in the first quarter, supported by growth in non-local participants and attendees.
DSEC said Macau hosted 399 meetings and conferences during the quarter, unchanged from the same period last year, while participant numbers increased 33.3 percent to 49,000. Corporate meetings rose 11.6 percent year-on-year, with participant numbers surging 75.1 percent to 29,000.
The city also recorded 15 incentive events, up by one event year-on-year, with participant numbers jumping 273.0 percent to 3,435.
