More guests spell good news for city’s economy, but hotel occupancy rate is still only just over 60 per cent.
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Early-bird winners already announced; other participants will learn on 30 September if they have won iPhone, massage chair or other prizes.
Staff will now complete enumeration survey before releasing initial results of population size, gender and age in December.
Population has mushroomed from 300,000 to 680,000 in 30 years, while proportion of senior citizens expected to reach 14 per cent by 2024.
Total value of retail sales grows 200 per cent year-on-year to MOP 20.70 billion between April and June.
Rise of 0.38 per cent blamed on higher prices for eating out, electricity, petrol, liquefied petroleum gas and fruit.
Most come from the mainland, and more than half from the Greater Bay Area; but totals are still way behind July 2019’s three-and-a-half million.
Increase in arrivals an encouraging sign, as spending in the first half of 2021 reaches MOP 13.34 billion.
Females currently outnumber males (just); fewer weddings, more births registered; and non-resident workers’ numbers are dropping.