Tourism

The Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) still hasn’t worked out the details of the exact locations of four tourist walking routes which will be launched by October, MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said Thursday. She made the comments on the sidelines of the Student Orientation Ceremony of the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) […]

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) is studying the development of new  tourism routes in the city in order to give other alternatives to tourists that visit mainly the area near the ruins of St. Paul. “Our technicians have been walking around the historical areas, trying to see possible alternative routes to promote, so that […]

Macau’s 99 hotels and guesthouses recorded 4.33 million guests in the first five months of this year, an increase of 16.9 percent on the same period of last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Monday. The growth rate of hotel guests largely outpaced the three percent increase in visitor arrivals to 11.8 million […]

Macau recorded 2.34 million visitor arrivals last month, an increase of 9.1 percent from the same month last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Monday. The daily average of visitor arrivals stood at 75,565 in May. Same-day visitors accounted for 51.7 percent of the total. Month-to-month, the number of visitor arrivals was down […]

Macau saw the total spending of visitors (excluding gaming expenses) reached 14.5 billion patacas (1.81 billion U.S. dollars) in the first quarter of 2013, up 10 percent year-on-year, according to figures released on Friday by the city’s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). In the first quarter of 2013, per-capita spending of visitors was 2,046 patacas […]

A drop in the number of visitors from Hong Kong is largely because of a lack of new attractions, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, the director of Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO). “Pure and simple, the [Hong Kong] visitors only come to Macau when there’s something new, like a new hotel or resort. Hong Kong […]

Macau logged 9.47 million visitor arrivals in the first four months of the year, a year-on-year increase of just 1.6 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Thursday. According to a DSEC statement, same-day visitors accounted for 51.9 percent of the total number. Mainlanders and Hongkongers accounted for 62.8 percent and 23.9 percent of […]

The Venetian Macao has been named “The Best Luxury Resort in the World” in the India’s Best Awards ceremony by Travel + Leisure India & South Asia for the second consecutive year. The award was presented by the lifestyle magazine at an awards ceremony last month in Mumbai, India. “The Venetian Macao is very pleased […]

Eight mainland tourists in a tour group on a four-day trip to Hong Kong and Macau complained to a local tour guide about being charged 200 yuan (260 patacas) to take them to the Venetian in Cotai. However, the tour guide insisted that the 200-yuan Venetian visit was a part of the group’s itinerary which […]