Tag: Tourism
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Tourism industry sees increasing number of group tours
The city currently sees about 100 tour groups arriving daily, with room for incremental growth, a local tourism group head has said. Andy Wu, president of ... -
MGTO tightens links with Indonesia, Malaysia
The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has increased efforts to attract tourists from Indonesia and Malaysia, the bureau said yesterday in a statement. In the first ... -
Macau sees ‘growing’ proportion of foreign visitors, says MGTO
The proportion of foreign visitors to Macau is “gradually growing” with a trend towards individual travelers, a local tourism official disclosed yesterday. On the sidelines of ... -
MGTO partners Air Macau to attract more tourists from Japan
To attract larger visitor numbers from Japan, the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) and Air Macau jointly organized a familiarization trip dedicated to the tourism operators ... -
Tourism bureau to boost events in latter half of 2023
The local tourism bureau has planned an array of major events and activities to take place in the latter half of 2023, officials announced in the ... -
Flooded with sightseers, Europe’s iconic churches struggle to accommodate both worship and tourism
A recent Saturday evening Mass at Sagrada Familia parish had all the hallmarks of a neighborhood worship service, from prayers for ill and deceased members to ... -
Visitor arrivals steady at 2.2 million in June
Visitor arrivals totaled 2.2 million in June, recording a slight drop of 0.2% when compared to the month prior. Macau has recorded the arrival of almost ... -
Macau closed 1H with almost 12 million visitors
Macau has recorded the arrival of almost 12 million visitors during the first half of this year (1H), the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has disclosed ... -
Hotel occupancy to level up to pre-pandemic this summer, Andy Wu says
The hotel occupancy rate in Macau is expected to return to pre-pandemic levels this summer, the president of the Travel Industry Council of Macau (TICM), Andy ... -
MGTO takes travel expo participants on familiarization tours in Macau
The government tourism bureau has hosted business visitors from a variety of places on familiarization tours in Macau as part of its overall marketing efforts. These ... -
Asians and North Americans top list of foreign visitors to Macau so far this year
Often statistically labeled as “others” during the major holidays and celebratory seasons in Macau, foreign visitors occupied just a small percentage (3.8%) of all the visitors ... -
Ctrip: Macau remains among most popular destinations during holiday
Research from travel agency giant Ctrip shows that, during the Dragon Boat Festival, Macau is among the most popular destinations for Chinese outbound travel. Over the ... -
Worker’s Day ‘Golden Week’ fails to halt tourist drop in May
The good results in terms of the influx of tourists during the so-called Golden Week of the Worker’s Day (May 1) failed to maintain the increasing ... -
International tourists doubled since resuming of flights: Senna Fernandes
International tourist arrivals nearly doubled in the first quarter from 3,000 to 5,000 daily while the overall average daily visitor arrivals reached 60,000, the director of the Macao ... -
Travel expo to celebrate Creative City of Gastronomy concept
The 11th Macao International Travel (Industry) Expo, which will be held from Jun. 30 to Jul. 2, will celebrate the UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy with ... -
Thailand’s tourism sector has ‘high interest’ in Macau, local group says
The head of a local tourism group said that the tourism industry in Thailand is very much interested in returning to Macau. President of the Macau ... -
Long weekend once again raised daily visitors average, industry recovering
The long weekend that included the public holiday of the Buddha’s Birthday Friday has contributed again to the rise of the average daily visitor figure of ... -
Visitor arrivals surge to 2.27 million in April amid travel rebound
Visitor arrivals totalled 2.27 million last month, representing an upsurge of 274.7% year-on-year and a rise of 16.2% month-on-month, data from Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) ... -
Visitor spending surges 130% as arrivals grow in Q1
Visitor spending has surged 127.1% year-on-year to MOP14.98 billion in the first quarter of 2023, driven by an uplift of 163.7% in visitor arrival numbers. Data ... -
MGTO to cooperate with AirAsia and Jin Air to attract overseas tourists
The number of tourists visiting Macau has reached 60% of pre-pandemic levels, with a stable majority of tourists coming from the mainland and Hong Kong and ... -
Botticelli’s Venus is an ‘influencer’ and Italy is not happy
The Italian tourism ministry thought it had a sure-fire way to bring travelers into the country: turning a 15th century art icon into a 21st century ... -
May Golden Week hotel occupancy reaches new high amid robust recovery
The SAR witnessed robust tourism recovery during the just-concluded five-day May Day holiday in the mainland, receiving around 300 travel groups and nearly 500,000 visitors. The ... -
Zhuhai sees tourism boom during five-day holiday
Zhuhai received 2.1 million visitors, achieved total tourism revenue of 1.27 billion yuan, and saw a surge in public transportation passenger volume during the May Day ... -
MGTO: Both online and offline training provided to tourism workers
Training via online and offline channels has been provided to workers in the tourism industry to better prepare them for reopening after Covid-19 restrictions, the Macao ... -
May Day holiday surpasses expectations
During the five days between April 29 and May 3 considered the “Labor Day Holidays” a total of 491,968 visitors entered Macau, a figure that surpassed ... -
Visitor figures drop on the fourth day, still above forecast
The number of tourists entering Macau during the so-called Labor Day Holidays, which comprise five days between April 29 and May 3, started to drop on ... -
Foreign travelers Find Macau ‘a good destination to have some holidays’
Foreign tourists who are currently visiting Macau during the Golden Week have expressed their satisfaction in the city’s offerings. Amid the Golden Week, over 430,000 tourists ... -
May Day: Visitor figures skyrocketed in the first two days
Visitors entering Macau in the first two days of the May 1 holidays, informally called “May 1 Golden Week,” have far surpassed predictions from the Macao ... -
Flight ticket bookings for May Golden Week surge 600% y-o-y
Macau is bracing itself for tourists swarming the city as air ticket bookings between April 29 and May 5 from the mainland to Macau increase by ... -
Coronation gives businesses boost, but UK economy still reeling
Kelly Curto is taking her first trip outside the U.S., and the die-hard fan of the British royal family is making it the one at the ... -
MGTO hopes visitors to reach over 20 million
The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) hopes incoming visitors will reach over 20 million this year, half the level of pre-pandemic times. Maria Helena de Senna ... -
Thailand hopes for major visitor’s splash during Songkran
Hordes of revelers toted colorful water guns yesterday as Thailand kicked off its exuberant three-day Songkran festival at full blast for the first time since 2019, ... -
Tourism board vetting eligibility for foreign group tour subsidy
Eligibility for overseas group tour subsidies is being reviewed now that applications for such subsidies have closed, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, director of the Macao ... -
Tickets discount program to extend to overseas tourists arriving via HK
The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) will extend the program that currently offers discounts and special benefits to Hong Kong visitors who visit Macau to include ... -
Mar. 18 sees three-year high of single-day visitor arrival
Last Saturday, the city saw its highest count of tourist arrivals in three years at 96,011, the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) announced in a statement. ...
