Tourism

The government confirmed yesterday that the city’s outgoing tourism chief will become the full-time head of the Macau Grand Prix Committee from 20 December for the next two years. The appointment of veteran Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Joao Manuel Costa Antunes was published in the Official Gazette (BO) Wednesday. A note attached to the […]

Macau’s number of Japanese visitor arrivals dropped 21.6 percent year-on-year in October to 25,562, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced Friday. Local tourism industry sources contacted by The Macau Post Daily attributed the sharp decline to the ongoing Sino-Japanese row over the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. The central government says […]

Macau’s 100 hotels and inns recorded 7.02 million guests in the first three quarters, a year-on-year increase of 11.5 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Wednesday. In September, the number of guests rose 11.9 percent year-on-year to 785,170. Guests’ average length of stay dropped by 0.18 of a night to 1.3 nights in […]

Macau recorded 2.16 million visitor arrivals last month, a decline of 0.2 percent from the same month last year, according to official statistics cited by The Macau Post Daily today. Month-on-month, September’s number of visitor arrivals was down 19.4 percent. Same-day visitors accounted for 50.1 percent of all visitor arrivals last month. Visitors’ average length […]

As veteran Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Joao Manuel Costa Antunes will step down in December after 24 years at the helm of the office, his anointed successor, MGTO Deputy Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said Wednesday her main tasks would be to continue the office’s work of attracting more tourists to Macau, […]

Macau’s 66 hotels and 33 inns received 6.23 million guests in the first eight months, 11.4 percent more than in the same period of last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Monday. According to a DSEC statement, the occupancy rate stood at 82.8 percent in the eight-month period, down by 0.9 percentage point. […]

The Public Security Police (PSP) released Monday figures  for border crossings during from September 29 to October 7, with the city logging a total of 3.26 million during the nine-day period. A PSP spokesperson had forecast about three million border crossings. The mainland’s eight-day Golden Week holiday ended on Sunday. Mid-Autumn Festival this year fell […]

Panda Fireworks Group from mainland China won, for the second consecutive year, the 24th Macau International Fireworks Display Contest followed by France’s Lacroix-Ruggieri and Australia’s Infinity Pyrotechnics, in second and third place respectively. This year’s participating teams came from Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, Portugal, France, the United States, Italy, mainland China and Macau that substitute […]

Over 1.24 million border-crossings, comprising local residents and tourists, have been recorded over the first four days of the eight-day long Golden Week holiday, data released by the Public Security Police (PSP) showed Wednesday. Macau has about 560,000 inhabitants. This year’s Golden Week holiday for mainlanders to celebrate National Day includes an extra day because […]