Tourism

Macau, China, 28 Dec – Macau’s number of visitor arrivals rose 2.7 percent year-on-year to 1.89 million in November, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) announced last week. However, the number fell 2.9 percent from the previous month. Mainlanders and Hongkongers accounted for 53.8 percent and 26.8 percent of all visitor arrivals in November, respectively. […]

Macau, China, 17 Dec – Macau will witness its biggest fireworks ever on Sunday night in celebration of the 10th anniversary of its return to the Motherland, the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) announced Wednesday. According to the announcement, the 25-minute pyrotechnic spectacle will be accompanied by music and fired from seven locations on the […]

Macau, China, 27 Nov – The number of MICE (meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions) events held in Macau stood at 310 in the third quarter of this year, decreasing by 11 percent over the previous quarter, according to figures released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), Xinhua reported on Friday. Of the MICE events, […]

Macau, China, 25 Nov – Macau’s number of visitor arrivals rose 5.2 percent year-on-year to 1.95 million in October, one of the highest monthly arrival numbers on record, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) has announced. Month-on-month, the number of arrivals in October was up 15.2 percent. Mainlanders accounted for 54.1 percent of all visitor […]

– Macau will receive around 200,000 doses of A/H1N1 flu vaccines later this month, to start inoculating local people, the Macau Health Bureau (SSM) announced on Wednesday. The 200,000 doses were the first batch of such vaccines purchased by the Macau government, the other 500,000 doses were scheduled to be delivered to Macau in January […]

Macau, China, 11 Nov – Fifty London taxis have been driving around in London since October, and will do so until the end of the year, covered in photographs of Macau. The move aims to put Macau at the top of the list of main destinations for British tourists. After Turismo de Portugal decorated the […]

Macau, China, 28 Oct – Macau’s total number of visitor arrivals in September rose 3.8 percent year-on-year to 1.68 million, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) announced Tuesday. However, September’s number of visitor arrivals dropped 18.2 percent compared with the previous month, according to The Macau Post Daily. The daily average of visitor arrivals stood […]

>Macau, China, 15 Oct – Macau’s number of hotel guests rose 15.5 percent year-on-year to 631,454 in August, some 87,000 more than its total population, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) announced Wednesday. At the end of June, Macau had 544,200 inhabitants. Month-on-month, the number of hotel guests in August was up 20.1 percent. Mainlanders […]

Macau, China, 25 Set – Macau logged 2.06 million visitor arrivals in August, an increase of 6.4 percent on the same month of last year, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) announced Thursday. Compared with the previous month, the number of arrivals was up 17.7 percent. August’s figure was the highest since March 2008, which […]