Tourism

Macau imported watches worth 3.47 billion patacas in the first eight months of this year, a 46.7 percent increase on the same period last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. Watch imports exceeded those of cars and scooters that reached 2.14 billion patacas between January and August, a year-on-year growth of 49.2 […]

An office to promote Macau’s tourism will be opened in Russia next year, Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director João Manuel Costa Antunes announced Thursday. An MGTO source told The Macau Post Daily the office would be based in Moscow. Costa Antunes said in his speech at a gala dinner at MGM Macau to mark […]

A dead dolphin and her newborn calf were found washed ashore yesterday morning, the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) said . According to a statement, preliminary autopsy results show that the calf was born prematurely as the mother had miscarried, resulting in the deaths of both marine mammals. Residents found the carcass of the […]

Macau’s number of visitor arrivals dropped slightly by 0.6 percent year-on-year to 2.68 million last month, marking a slowdown in the year-on-year decline in visitors since May, according to official statistics cited by The Macau Post Daily today. In July, the number of visitor arrivals fell 4.2 percent year-on-year. In June, the number was down […]

Senior officials from Hong Kong and Macau said Wednesday that the two cities were willing to strengthen co-operation to promote their so-called “‘one trip multiple stops” joint tourism product. Hong Kong’s Chief Secretary for Administration Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was in Macau Wednesday to pay a courtesy call on Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On […]

Macau’s 66 hotels and 33 guesthouses welcomed a record 875,640 guests in July, up 10 percent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. The previous record stood at 820,163 in December last year. Guests’ average length of stay dropped 0.18 of a night to 1.2 nights in July, when the occupancy rate of […]

Veteran Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Joao Manuel Costa Antunes said Monday that visitor arrivals in 2012 will dip to single-digit growth instead of the 11 percent year-on-year growth he had forecast back in January. Costa Antunes said during the three-day Global Tourism Economy Forum held at the Macau Tower Convention and Entertainment Centre […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Sundaythat he hoped the Global Tourism Economy Forum being held in Macau for the first time will effectively promote international tourism-related exchanges and co-operation. According to The Macau Post Daily, Chui made the comment during his speech at the three-day forum’s opening ceremony at Macau Tower, marking its […]

Macau received 2.44 million visitor arrivals in July, a 4.2 percent decrease from the same month last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSCE) said in a statement yesterday. It was the third successive month of a year-on-year decrease in visitor arrivals, The Macau Post Daily pointed out. The daily average of visitor arrivals stood […]