A new report concludes that the slow approval process for foreign hires and post-pandemic competition for labour from other Asian resorts is harming the local gaming sector.
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Operation of the 1.6-kilometre line, which connects Seac Pai Van station and a station at the new Islands Healthcare Complex, is expected to begin next year.
A company official told local media that it was hoping to move to a 15-minute schedule as soon as there was sufficient passenger volume.
Visitors to the territory over the long weekend don’t appear to have read the memo on Macao’s economic diversification.
The ‘Experience Macao Unlimited’ event takes place in the heart of the Portuguese capital as Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng arrives for talks with top officials.
Yi Ping Chow of the Chinese League in Portugal makes the proposal on the eve of Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng’s visit to Lisbon.
Average daily arrivals for the three-day Easter holiday period stand at more than 87,660 according to the latest figures.
However, total airport arrivals in the first quarter of 2023 are still only less than a third of what they were during the same period before the pandemic.
Visitors from across the estuary made up almost 46 percent of the 74,000 arrivals recorded on 5 April, prompting optimistic forecasts from tourism officials.