Tourism

Macau hotels have been ranked the most expensive in the Asia-Pacific region, with the most expensive average hotel room rate reaching MOP1,609, according to the HRS Hotel Price Radar. Between January and March, the average price of Macau hotels increased by 64 percent year-on-year, recording one of the sharpest increases among the Asia-Pacific destinations, according […]

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said on Tuesday he hopes that gaming operators’ new resorts in Cotai will extend visitors’ stay. According to official statistics, visitors’ average length of stay stood at just 1.4 nights in March, a figure which has remained virtually unchanged for decades. Leong spoke to reporters on […]

Pansy Ho Chiu King, co-chairperson and executive director of MGM China Holdings, said on Tuesday that in order to diversify Macau’s tourism industry, it was “inevitable” for casino operators to hire non-local workers. Ho made the remark on the sidelines of the Beijing-Macau Economic and Cultural Exchange Promotion Association’s (BMEPA) founding ceremony and swearing-in of […]

Macau’s 99 hotels and guesthouses recorded 2.35 million guests in the first quarter, an 11.5 percent decrease year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Thursday. The average occupancy rate stood at 78.9 percent in the first quarter, a drop of 7.8 percentage points year-on-year. At the end of March, the hospitality industry had 28,000 […]

A new measure intended to alleviate crowd congestion in popular tourist spots will be tested during this week’s Labour Day holiday, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said on the sidelines of Sunday’s water-splashing festival on Hac Sa Beach in Coloane. The festival was held to celebrate the Myanmar New Year […]

The Macau Prix Committee (MGPC) announced Wednesday that the 62nd Macau Grand Prix on November 19-22 will include the first FIA GT World Cup ever. Veteran MGPC chief Joao Manuel Costa Antunes chaired a press conference at Macau Fishermen’s Wharf to announce details of the event. An MGPC statement pointed out that when the Macau […]

Macau received fewer visitors from the mainland but more from both Hong Kong and Taiwan over the Easter and Ching Ming holidays between Good Friday and Monday, Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Helena de Senna Fernandes said on Wednesday. Speaking on a TDM phone-in programme, Senna Fernandes said that the city received 641,000 visitors […]

[:zh]据统计暨普查局（DSEC）上周五宣布，上月内地旅客个人游计划（IVS）访澳人数（114万人次）录得单月新高，比去年同期增长38.9％。 该局认为农历新年假期导致旅客人数急剧增长。 上月来澳的内地个人游占内地旅客60％。 上月访澳旅客总数同比上升4.5％至267万人次。 内地旅客占所有访澳旅客70.9％，而个人游旅客则占所有旅客42.6％。 不过夜旅客占所有旅客58.8％，人数比去年同期增加13.8％。 今年2月，由陆路经珠海访澳的旅客有59.3％，由海路经香港和广东的有34.2％左右，下跌8.9％。只有6.5％旅客乘机抵澳。虽然经海空访澳的旅客分别下降8.9％和2.0％，但经陆路抵澳的旅客数字却增加15.1％。 今年首二月入境旅客人数增长1.5％至514万人次。首二月南韩访澳旅客人数同比增长12.1％至125,031人次。 （Macaunews / Macaupost） [:]

Macau had a tourism carrying capacity ranging from 89,374 to 92,325 visitors per day last year, while the annual carrying capacity range was between 32.62 million and 33.7 million, according to a study conducted by the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) that was released on Thursday at its Mong Ha campus. 2013 data shows that […]