Macau’s airport handled 5.48 million passengers last year, up nine percent from 2013. The figure was released on the sidelines of a Spring Festival dinner hosted by Macau International Airport Company (CAM) on Friday. The number of aircraft movements (takeoffs and touchdowns) rose 7.4 percent to 52,000. The figure included 2,791 business jet movements, up […]
Day: February 2, 2015
Macau’s gold jewellery imports rose six percent year-on-year to 10.2 billion patacas last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Friday. Gold jewellery, the city’s second import item after food and beverages combined, accounted for 11.4 percent of the total value of imports last year. Watch imports rose 22.2 percent to 7.9 billion […]
Macau’s number of hotel guests rose a mere 0.4 percent to 10.7 million last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Friday. Hotel’s average occupancy rate stood at 86.5 percent, up 3.4 percentage points. At the end of last year, the city’s 98 hotels and guesthouses provided a total of 28,000 guestrooms, up […]