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The company added a new A321 airbus to its fleet on Tuesday, as another step in its fleet expansion and renewal. Zheng Yan chairman of Air Macau’s board of directors said the Air Macau fleet will expand from the current 15 aircrafts to 17 within this year, and to 24 by 2018, with each plane […]

统计暨普查局（DSEC）周二公布，去年澳门旅客的非博彩消费按年增长3.7％至617.5亿澳门元。 过夜旅客消费508.8亿澳门元，增长2.6％；不过夜旅客的“非博彩消费”上升9.1％至108.7亿澳门元。 去年旅客人均消费额为1,959澳门元，下降3.5％。 去年第四季度旅客非博彩消费按年下降13.9％至140.5亿澳门元。 去年第四季度内地旅客人均消费按年下降27.3％至2,038澳门元。然而，内地人仍是澳门最大消费群体。 第四季度旅客的主要消费项目是购物（占非博彩支出的43.3％）、住宿（26.9％）、食品和饮料（19.9％）。 主要购物项目包括本地食品（26.1％）、珠宝手表（18.6％）及化妆品和香水（16.9％）。 根据第四季度的旅客意见调查结果，88.2％的人表示满意酒店的服务和设施，而82％的人表示满意零售服务。然而，仅有40.4％的人说澳门有足够的非博彩旅游景点，18.8％的人认为公共交通有待改进。(macaunews/macaupost)

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng has been quoted as saying his message to the central government is “thanks, you got our heartfelt thanks, but we can’t receive more” mainland visitors. The Portuguese-language radio channel of government broadcaster TDM reported Tam’s remarks last Thursday, citing Portugal’s Lusa newswire. The TDM news […]

The Macau government will negotiate with the Central Government a limit to the number of tourists arriving from China, said the Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam on Thursday. According to Lusa – the Portuguese news agency, the Secretary said that the high numbers of tourists, a majority of them being from China […]

A total of 434,549 visitor arrivals were recorded during the first three days of the Chinese New Year (CNY), up 3.4 percent on the same period of last year, the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) told government broadcaster TDM on Monday. According to TDM, the number included 308,089 mainlanders, accounting for almost 71 percent of […]

The government wants to “control” the number of visitor arrivals but has no intention of reducing or even limiting their number, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said on Thursday. Tam made the remark after a meeting of the Tourism Development Committee (CDT), which he chaired, at the Tourist Activities Centre […]

The Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement on Monday that the number of the visitors to the city was expected to increase three to five percent compared to the Chinese New Year (CNY) holiday last year, adding that it would deploy more staff to maintain public order on the days that crowding is […]

The Harbourview Hotel, part of the Macau Fisherman’s Wharf theme park redevelopment site, opened on Wednesday in Macau. It’s the first of several non-gaming related projects planned for this year in Macau. The wave of new projects comes amid eight months of consecutive gambling revenue losses as China’s corruption crackdown hit Macau and Beijing urges […]

Visitor numbers are expected to grow five percent this year, from 31.5 million last year to 33 million this year, even as the city’s gaming revenue is falling, Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said Wednesday. Senna Fernandes made the remark during the office’s annual press conference at Macau Tower […]