Tourism

Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes says she expects Macau’s number of visitor arrivals around Christmas to increase slightly. She made the cautious forecast on Sunday after attending the inauguration of the third term of board members of the Macau Youth Federation at the Macau Science Centre in Nape. Senna […]

Macau’s visitor arrivals increased by 2 percent year-on-year to 2,394,195 in October 2013, according to figures released on Friday by the city’s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). Of all the arrivals in October, 53 percent spent only one day. The average length of stay of visitors held stable from a year earlier at 1.0 day, […]

Macau’s 98 hotels and guesthouses welcomed 7.99 million guests in the first nine months of this year, an increase of 13.9 percent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Thursday. At the end of September, Macau’s hospitality industry provided 27,807 guestrooms, up 6.7 percent from a year earlier, of which 5-star hotels accounted for […]

Macau recorded 21.9 million visitor arrivals in the first nine months, a year-on-year growth of five percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Thursday. Visitors from the mainland and South Korea rose by 12 percent and 5.8 percent respectively, while those from Hong Kong and Taiwan dropped by 4.5 percent and 9.5 percent. In […]

Hollywood Roosevelt from Los Angeles is making Macau its Asian debut with an investment of two billion patacas to build a 400-room 1950s Hollywood-themed hotel next to the Macau Jockey Club in Taipa. The hotel is slated to be operational between the middle and the end of 2015. The ground-breaking ceremony for the Hollywood Roosevelt […]

Macau’s 97 hotels and guesthouses recorded 7.12 million guests in the first eight months of this year, up 14.4 percent on the same period of last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Thursday. The number of hotel guests accounted for 36.4 percent of the number of visitor arrivals in the first eight months. […]

Macau recorded 896,847 visitor arrivals during the mainland’s October 1-7 Golden Week holiday, an increase of 5.7 percent from the same time last year, the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) said in a statement Thursday. The MGTO figures differ slightly from statistics released by the Public Security Police (PSP) earlier this week, according to which […]

SAS BREZAC Artifices, from France, won the 25th Macau International Fireworks contest  followed by China and Switzerland in the second and third rank. The prize for the champion team is US$ 8,000 US dollars whereas the second and third prize winners were awarded 4,000 and 2,500  dollars respectively. Ten teams came from Asia, Europe, America, […]

Macau is the seventh favorite destination for Chinese travellers, according to a survey released by daodao.com, TripAdvisor’s customized Chinese brand. Mainland tourists’ top destination continues to be the neighboring region of Hong Kong, followed by the island of Phuket in Thailand,Taiwan, Bangkok, Paris, Dubai, Macau, Seoul, Singapore and Bali. The survey indicates that the Chinese […]