Tourism

Macau, China, 24 Feb – Macau recorded 2.07 million visitor arrivals in January, an increase of just 1.4 percent over the same month last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Wednesday. However, compared to the previous month, January’s figure was down 8.6 percent, The Macau Post Daily pointed out. Visitors from Asia […]

Macau, China, 17 Feb – Macau, which has around 550,000 residents, logged a record 7.75 million hotel guests last year, an increase of 15.5 percent on 2009, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. Hotel guests accounted for 31 percent of last year’s total number of visitor arrivals, which reached a record 24.96 million, […]

Macau, China, 10 Feb – Macau received 805,289 tourists during the Chinese New Year holidays, between February 2 and 8, according to the Immigration Department. Acccording to the department the number of visitors arrivals grew 8.58 percent over the same periodo of last year. Most of those tourists (477,252) came from mainland China, a 14 […]

Macau, China, 7 Feb – Macau recorded falling exports and rising imports last year, resulting in an external merchandise trade deficit of 37.16 billion patacas (US$4.64 billion), according to the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC). The trade deficit rose 27.1 percent year on year. Total exports – comprising domestic and re-exports – dropped 9.3 percent […]

Macau, China, 2 Feb – Macau’s Immigration Department expects about 2.4 million people to cross Macau’s borders during the Lunar New Year holiday over the next seven days. Tommy Wong Kim Hong, chief inspector of the Public Security Police (PSP) that runs Macau’s immigration service, said Tuesday that the border crossings were expected to peak […]

Macau, China, 2 Feb – Macau’s Immigration Department expects about 2.4 million people to cross Macau’s borders during the Lunar New Year holiday over the next seven days. Tommy Wong Kim Hong, chief inspector of the Public Security Police (PSP) that runs Macau’s immigration service, said Tuesday that the border crossings were expected to peak […]

Macau, China, 20 Jan -Macau recorded close to 25 million visitor arrivals last year, representing an increase of 15 percent over 2009, Director of Macau Government Tourist Office Joao Manuel Costa Antunes said on Wednesday. Antunes made the announcement at the MGTO Annual Press Conference at the Macao Tower Convention and Entertainment Center, where media […]

Macau, China, 29 Dec – Macau recorded 22.69 million visitor arrivals in the first 11 months of this year, an increase of 15.1 percent on the same period of last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Tuesday. The majority of visitors were from Mainland China (12 million), Hong Kong (6.8 million) and Taiwan […]

Macau, China, 17 Dec – Originally budgeted at 80 million patacas (US$10 million), the construction of a 3,000-square-metre enclosure at Seac Pai Van Van Park in Coloane island for the pair of giant pandas due to arrive in Macau Saturday will finally cost 12.5 percent more then previously planned due to adjustments suggested by Sichuan […]