With the city’s tourism sector picking up, measures are being implemented to combat excessive prices for hotel rooms being quoted on online booking platforms.
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Figure is again nearly double the cases recorded in previous day, with total positive cases since 28 November now standing at 923; close contacts can also stay in any hotel starting tomorrow.
Most used to work in hotels, restaurants or gaming industry; government seeks to encourage graduates to join internship scheme.
As Covid-19 pandemic travel restrictions bite, guests from mainland China fall by almost 60% to 244,000, but locals ‘holidaying at home’ fill 95,000 beds.
Both large and small properties, from MGM Cotai and Sands Macao to Hotel I Fu, get thumbs-up for green initiatives, including banning plastic straws and using eco-friendly refrigerants.
Daily numbers dive to less than 25,000; tourism chief vows to continue promotions in GBA, lining up two-for-one deals when Macao reopens borders.
Tourism chief hoping for 60% hotel occupancy; discount vouchers and drone shows mainstay of campaign to encourage cross-border tourists.
Most guests mainlanders or staycationers; figures still well short of pre-pandemic 2019, when almost every bed was filled every night.
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