Tourism

The number of Macau’s visitor arrivals is expected to increase at least 10 percent this year from last year’s 28 million, led by visitors from the mainland, Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Joao Manuel Costa Antunes said in an interview in New York last week, according to Bloomberg. Last year, the number of visitor […]

Macau, whose land area amounts to just 29.9 square kilometers, logged 208,037 licensed motor vehicles at the end of March, a year-on-year increase of five percent, The Macau Post Daily reports today, citing official statistics. The number of motor vehicles per square kilometre reached 6,957 at the end of the first quarter. The number of […]

Three newly-approved ferry routes from Taipa’s Pac On Temporary Ferry Terminal to Hong Kong’s Shueng Wan, Zhuhai’s Wanzai and Shenzhen’s Shekou terminals will be operational within six months from the permit date, Maritime Administration(CP) Director Suzana Wong Soi Man said Thursday. Wong said that the government has approved Shun Tak-China Travel Ship Management’s application to […]

Only 46.7 percent of a total 7,314 visitors who participated in a survey carried out by University of Macau (UM) said that they came to Macau for gambling – these respondents said they either “had gambled” or “planned to gamble” in local casinos during their visit. The findings of the survey were announced on Thursday […]

Taipei-based Mandarin Airlines began Saturday to offer regular flights between the central Taiwan city of Taichung and Macau. The new service provides seven round-trip flights per week, with a 90-minute one-way flight, according to the carrier. Taichung Deputy Mayor Tsai Ping-kun and Nantou Magistrate Lee Chao-ching attended a ceremony to mark the new service, in […]

Macau’s official tourist price index (TPI) rose 10.15 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, The Macau Post Daily reports today, citing officials stastistics. The DSEC announcement attributed the steep increase to higher restaurant prices, hotel room rates and entertainment prices during the Lunar New Year holiday period (in late January) and higher prices of gold […]

Pier 16 –Property Development Ltd., the owner of the Ponte 16 casino-hotel in Macau, announced in a statement Tuesday the signing of HK$1.9 billion and 400 million yuan 5-year syndicated loan facilities with 11 banks. According to the statement cited by The Macau Post Daily today, ICBC (Macau) Ltd. is the mandated lead arranger and […]

Macau’s hospitality industry logged an average occupancy rate of 82.3 percent in the first two months this year, up 1.6 percent from a year earlier, according to official statistics. The number of guests rose 14.4 percent year-on-year to 1.42 million between January and February. Hotel guests accounted for 30.9 percent of all visitor arrivals in […]

Macau Chief Executive Chui Sai On and Governor of Guangdong province Zhu Xiaodan officiated at the opening ceremony of the “Guangdong Macau Week” held in Guangzhou,Thursday. Jointly hosted by the Macau Special Administrative Region Government and the People’s Government of Guangdong Province and co-organized by the Macau Government Tourist Office and Tourism Administration of Guangdong […]