Tourism

Macau recorded 2.56 million visitor arrivals in February, a year-on-year increase of eight percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Monday. The daily average of arrivals reached 91,448 during the 28-day month, The Macau Post Daily pointed out. The first week of last month coincided with the mainland’s so-called Golden Week Chinese New Year […]

The travel and tourism in­dustry in Macau is set to grow 7.2 percent this year, ac­cording to a report issued by the World Travel & Tourism Coun­cil (WTTC). Accor­ding to the report, in Macau, the direct contribution of travel and tourism to gross domestic pro­duct (GDP) in 2013 represented 43.1 percent, mainly reflecting the economic […]

Guest speakers and audience members in Sunday’s Macau Forum criticised the government for failing to address the negative side effects caused by an increasingly large number of tourists visiting the city, namely mainlanders. Guest speaker lawmaker Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong said Macau ’s carrying capacity to receive tourists has reached the limit while fellow speaker […]

Macau recorded a daily average of 80,61 visitors – corresponding to 13.5 percent of the local population – in January,  The Macau Post Daily reports, citing offical figures released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) Monday. Macau had a population of 598,200 – including residents and imported labour – at the end of the […]

The director of the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO), Helena de Senna Fernandes said in Nanning that the government want to diversify the place from where mainland tourists came to Macau. Senna Fernandes said that the majority of the  visitors came to Macau from Guangdong province  and the government want to change that trend making […]

The number of visitors to Macau reached one million during the Chinese New Year holiday, registering a growth of 13 percent from the same period last year, according to preliminary statistics from the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO). Visitor arrivals numbered 1,054,183 (including foreign employees and students) from January 31 to February 6 (Golden Week […]

Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday her office will explore the possibility of converting old, low-rise buildings into self-catering accommodation flats for tourists. According to The Macau Post Daily, Senna Fernandes made the remark at Macau Tower during the MGTO annual press conference about Macau ’s tourism statistics […]

Macau’s tourist price index (TPI) rose 6.80 percent year-on-year in 2013, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Wednesday. A DSEC statement attributed the growth to a “marked increase” in the price indices of clothing and footwear (+10.50 percent); accommodation (+9.68 percent); and food, alcoholic drinks and tobacco (+9.15 percent). According to the statement, the […]

In the first eleven months of 2013, visitor arrivals in Macau  totalled 26,737,993, up by 5% year-on-year according to the  Statistics and Census Service (DSEC. Visitors  from  Mainland China and the Republic of Korea increased by 10% and 7% respectively, while those from Hong Kong and Taiwan, China decreased by 4% and 7%. Besides, visitors […]