Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said on Tuesday that the travel sector was discussing the arrangements for possible tour cancellations resulting from the government’s new travel alert system, adding that her office was paying close attention to the discussions.
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Pousada de São Tiago will temporarily close from March 31st and remain closed until the construction of the Barra Transport Complex is completed, SJM Managing Director and Chief Administrative Officer Angela Leong On Kei said on Tuesday.
In 2016, Taiwan recorded up to 140,000 visits from Macau, up 10 percent from 2015, according to a statement released by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Macau.
Macau 107 hotels and guesthouses welcomed 12 million guests last year, an increase of 13.6 per cent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.
A total of 614,357 visitor arrivals were recorded between Friday, the eve of the Chinese New Year (CNY), and Tuesday, the fourth day of the CNY, an increase of 5.7 per cent compared to last year’s Chinese New Year period, according to official statistics released by the Macau Government Tourism Office.
Macau welcomed 15.7 million overnight visitors last year, an increase of 9.8 per cent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday that the number of overnight visitors last year outnumbered same-day visitors for the first time in 10 years, a year-on-year increase of nearly 10 per cent.
The owners of Beijing Imperial Palace Hotel said in a statement on Friday that they would return the licence to run the hotel in Taipa to the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), because they could not finish the necessary work required to meet the building’s necessary fire safety regulations before the deadline – January 22 – set by the government – six months after the government announced the temporary closure of the hotel in July.
Macau’s number of visitor arrivals during the two-day New Year holiday fell 6.12 percent year-on-year to 318,948, according to a statement by the Public Security Police (PSP) on Tuesday.