MGTO takes roadshow to Huizhou, offers wedding photo packages
Over the past weekend, the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has brought the “Experience Macau without limits” Greater Bay Area (GBA) Roadshow to the Central Plaza of China Central Place in Huizhou.
This was the fifth stop of the caravan roadshow that aims to promote Macau’s “Tourism +” elements and attract residents from the cities that compose the GBA to Macau as a form of local tourism economy recovery, which has beet affected by three years of border closures.
According to a report of the event from MGTO, one of their promotions during the weekend at Huizhou invited the audience to make a short video of the roadshow and upload it on the social media platform Tiktok with specific hashtags. Those who did so were entitled to participate in the lucky draw to win a one-day free Macau wedding photography package.
At the opening, the deputy director of MGTO, Cheng Wai Tong noted that as soon as the borders between Macau, the mainland, and Hong Kong resumed normal activity the MGTO resumed its roadshow series at the GBA cities to promote Macau as a tourism destination as well as the latest travel discount information.
Cheng invited Huizhou residents to visit Macau in person, with their friends and families, and to stay for a few days. He also invited people to pay close attention to the further event and promotions to take place in Macau throughout the year and to consider visiting the region more than once.
The roadshow caravan featured elements such as festive events, gourmet food, sports, wedding photography, and leisure travel, among others, expecting to convince more visitors from Huizhou to visit Macau soon.
As usually happens, the six gaming concessionaires were also represented in the roadshow with individual promotion booths aiming to promote non-gaming elements of their operations.
MGTO also said to cooperate with airlines, e-commerce platforms, and online travel agencies to distribute air tickets and hotel accommodation discounts to tourists in several phases throughout the year. Among them, hotel coupons are being issued to mainland tourists through the platforms of trip.com, Meituan, and Qunar. During the roadshow, those who are eligible to use Macau hotel 50% off coupons to purchase Macau tourism products received a Macau Pass Card with a value of 50 patacas.
The roadshow will continue to its last four stops with promotion to be held shortly in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, and Zhaoqing.
