Enhanced services will include special Friday and weekend departures, with peak-time frequencies reaching every 15 minutes from Macao.
Macao visitors
Tourism officials hope that the number of visitors during the customary mainland Chinese holiday will exceed those welcomed during Easter.
Travellers are flocking to the city once more, according to the latest data, with arrivals from Hong Kong soaring by over 1,000 percent year-on-year.
Average rooms rate rise across the board as the city’s hospitality industry begins to recover from the three years of the Covid-19 pandemic.
City records highest number of visitors since start of pandemic in 2020; last fireworks display takes place this coming Sunday, float exhibition runs till 12 February.
Figure strikes even sharper contrast with 2019, when city hosted more than 39 million visitors before onset of Covid-19 pandemic.
Around 3 million Hong Kong visitors expected by year’s end, less than half pre-pandemic annual total of 7 million.
Arrivals now back up to half pre-Covid-19 levels, with bulk coming from mainland China plus thousands from Hong Kong.
Promotions for foreign tourists to include buy-one-get-one-free offers and tour group packages; campaign will be coordinated with resumption of Air Macau’s international routes.