Macau recorded 984,996 visitor arrivals during the mainland’s seven-day National Day Golden Week holiday.
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The government’s 2019 honours list comprises 31 individuals and entities including seven members of its top advisory body.
Argentina, Brazil and Jiangsu province will be the partners of Macau’s three-day 2018 Global Tourism Economy Forum next month.
Macau and Hong Kong guides have applied for a tour-guide licence in Hengqin.
Tourist arrivals during the Mid-Autumn Festival recorded a growth of 9.56% compared with the same period last year.
Macau recorded 1.048 million Chinese New Year (CNY) visitor arrivals between Monday and Saturday last week, an increase of 27.4 percent compared with last year’s CNY holiday period.
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said the government was open to discussing lawmaker Agnes Lam Iok Fong’s recent proposal to charge tourists an entry fee in an attempt to control the number of visitor arrivals.
In the wake of the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) on October 24, Macau’s visitor arrivals rose by 15.3 percent year-on-year to 3.26 million last month, while month-to-month growth reached 3.6 percent
Macau recorded 6.03 million mainland Chinese visitor arrivals in the first quarter, up percent year on year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement Monday.