Tourism

Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said on Monday that she could not yet say what the hotel booking situation for the upcoming Golden Week holiday is but the industry appeared to be worried. Senna Fernandes made the remark while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Ascott Macau […]

Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) held two sessions of Islamic Culture in Tourism Workshop in Hong Kong for tour guides, employees of hotels and tour operators from Macau as well as MGTO staff on 4 September and 18 September. The purpose of the Workshop is to familiarize travel industry personnel with the religion of Islam […]

A senior government official said on Thursday that the upcoming Global Tourism Economy Forum (GTEF) will discuss how to take advantage of the central government’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative to improve tourism. Lai Ieng Kit, chief-of-cabinet of the Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture, made the announcement at the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT) during […]

Hotel sector revenues amounted to MOP27.87 billion in 2014, up by 10.2 percent year-on-year, according to an annual survey released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). Analyzed by subsector, room sales increased by 14.3 percent year-on-year to MOP13.65 billion, accounting for 49 percent of the total. Receipts from food & beverages increased marginally by […]

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said on Thursday he was confident and optimistic that the number of visitor arrivals this year would be similar to the one of last year, which stood at 31.5 million. He also said that according to a study on the city’s tourism carrying capacity Macau’s […]

Macau Travel Industry Council President Andy Wu Keng Kuong said on Wednesday that all package tours to Bangkok would be cancelled until September 10. The move came after a deadly bomb explosion, which killed 20 people, including two female Hong Kong tourists, in the Thai capital on the night of August 17. According previous announcements […]

The government will choose quality over quantity for its tourism development plans and will not be “blindly chasing” tourist numbers, the Office of the Government Spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday. Legislator-cum-unionist Kwan Tsui Hang and New Macau Association (NMA) President Scott Chiang MengHin separately criticized the government on Tuesday for its response to […]

Macau’s number of hotel guests fell 7.6 percent year-on-year to 4.9 million in the first half of the year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. In June, the number of hotel guests dropped 1.9 percent year-on-year to 859,000. Mainlanders and Hongkongers accounted for 60.3 percent and 16.2 percent of hotel guests in June […]

Macau’s visitor arrivals in June recorded a 7.6 percent year-on-year and 11.8 percent month-to- month decline to 2.24 million, the worst number since September 2012, the city’s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) said Thursday in the latest press release. Visitors from the mainland who accounted for over 60 percent of the total decreased by 10.1 […]