New choices include skywalk at Macau Tower; thousand sign up for tours, and more than 6,000 hotel packages already booked.
Macao Government Tourism Office
Gaming operator bosses confident of more visitors in the coming months, point to healthy results at start of Year of the Tiger.
Plans are in hand to bring 90 students, who had been unable to book a bed in Macao, back home.
Around 60 stranded students report unable to make booking; security guards unwilling to work in quarantine hotels.
Floats, lion dancers and performers make up parade in Northern District; fireworks display will light up the sky tomorrow at 9 pm.
Around 100 daily arrivals threaten to overwhelm current available accommodation, but new hotels must meet Health Bureau standards.
Most of the 95,696 visitors were from the mainland, with just under 15,000 crossing the border each day.
Figures for 2021 show healthy increases; tourism chiefs plan to promote city with variety of online and offline strategies which showcase its diverse attractions.
Eighteen dancing lions, Macao mascot MAK MAK and Guizhou Congjiang Ethnic Art Troupe join in celebration overshadowed by Covid-19 precautions.