Macau’s South Korean visitor arrivals rose 49.5 per cent to 47,957 in June, the highest increase of any visitor segment, according to figures released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) last week. The total number of visitor arrivals rose 4.9 per cent year-on-year to 2.36 million last month. However, month-to-month, the figure was down […]
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Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said on Thursday that this year’s fireworks contest’s budget was yet to increase by 15 per cent year-on-year. Senna Fernandes, who also heads the Tourism Crisis Management Office (GGCT), made the announcement during a press conference about the 28th Macau International Fireworks Display Contest […]
Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said on Wednesday that she expected the government’s long-planned travel warning mechanism finally to be set up this year. Senna Fernandes, who also heads the Tourism Crisis Management Office (GGCT), made the remark on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the “Art at […]
Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) is in the midst of its three-day Annual Marketing Meeting 2016, which started on Monday, gathering some 50 participants including the MSAR’s delegations from different regions. The meeting, also attended by MGTO’s market representatives and PR consultants, features discussions on the bureau’s marketing plans to be carried out in 2017. […]
Visitors’ arrivals totalled 2,477,591 in May, up slightly by 0.3 per cent month-to-month and yet down by 2.8 per cent year-on-year, according to the information released by the Statistics and Census Service on Thursday. Same-day visitors dropped by 8.3 per cent year-on-year to 1,272,242, while overnight visitors rose by 3.8 per cent to 1,205,349. Visitors […]
Immigration authorities recorded a total of 1,838,717 crossings at the checkpoints of Macau during the Dragon Boat Festival (between 9 and 12 June), Public Security Police Force (PSP) revealed on Monday. The total number of arrivals stood at 920,027, with 626,996 tourists arriving to Macau, representing a 10.44 per cent growth. Regarding the total number […]
Macau’s 106 hotels and inns recorded 917,000 guests in April, an increase of 11.5 per cent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Tuesday. Mainlanders accounted for 66.5 per cent and 12.5 per cent of all guests respectively. While the number of guests from the mainland grew 16.7 per cent year-on-year, the number […]
A local delegation of 50 peple concluded a three-day visit to Cambodia on the 30 May 2016 with a meeting with the President of the Senate, said the Macau Government Information Bureau. The vice president of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and former Chief Executive Edmund Ho, and the Secretary for Social Affairs and […]
Angola wants to attract businesspeople from Macau and mainland China who are interested in investing in the tourism sector, said the Consul General of Angola in Macau in an interview published in the latest Forum Macau newsletter. Sofia Pegado da Silva, says in the interview that as part of the promotion of Angola tourism has […]