Tourism

>Macau, China, 11 Sept – Macau International Airport (MIA) is planning to expand its facilities in the medium-term in an investment estimated at 5 billion patacas (US$625 million), MIA marketing director Antonio Rato said Wednesday in Macau. Rato, who spoke on the sidelines of a seminar on the development of aviation business in Macau, said […]

Macau, China, 11 Sept – Motorists planning to use the proposed Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai bridge would not be allowed to enter Macau, according to a local media report. Macau Closer reported that drivers travelling to Macau would have to park their cars at a parking station and use public transport to enter the city. Director of […]

Macau, China, 8 Sept – Florence Loi, 23 year-old marketing operations trainer, was voted Sunday Miss Macau 2008 in a show that was held at the Venetian Macau Resort. Florence Loi, who was also voted Miss Photogenic, is also expected to participate in the Miss International 2008 pageant on the 8 November in Macau. The […]

Macau, China, 3 Sept – One person died and two others were injured Tuesday in a collision between a Cotai WaterJets high speed ferry and a Chinese fishing boat 7.5 nautical miles from Macau, Macau´s Maritime Administration (Capitania dos Portos) said. The accident took place in the waters of the jurisdiction of Chinese municipality Zhuhai, […]

Macau, China, 1 Sept – As of Monday tourists from mainland China will only be authorised to remain in Macau for seven days instead of the 14 days previously allowed, according to measures announced by the territory’s police force, Polícia de Seguranca Publica(PSP) According to the police, the new measures announced last July are meant […]

Macau, China, 1 Sept – The Macau Tourism office plans to launch a campaign this month in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, to attract more visitors and businessmen to the Special Administrative Region of China, officials said at the weekend. The Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) campaign will take place between 4 and 14 […]

Macau, China, 21 Aug – Around 17.6 million visitors entered Macau in the first seven months of the year, which was a year on year rise of 18.5 percent, officials said. According to the Macau Statistics and Census Bureau, of that total 10.3 million were from China. According to the Bureau, between January and July, […]

Macau, China, 20 Aug – Three international consulting companies have applied to carry out the feasibility study of the second phase of the Macau light railway, construction of which is due to begin in 2009, government officials said. British company Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong, US company Parsons Brinckerhoff (Asia) and Hong Kong consultancy, […]

Macau, China, 22 July – Macau received 14.92 million visitors in the first half of 2008, which was a rise of 18.1 percent against the same period of 2007, the region’s Statistics and Census Bureau said Monday in Macau. The number of visitors from mainland China was 8.77 million, or a rise of 27.1 percent […]