Tag: Tourism
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Entertainment and cultural activities up 23% in 2022 despite sector-wide slump
The average Tourist Price Index (TPI) for the whole year of 2022 dropped by 0.38% year-on-year to 116.65 points, Information from the Statistics and Census Service ... -
Record-breaking weekend in visitors’ number, 160,000 in three days
This weekend was a record-breaking one in what concern the number of visitors to Macau. In three days (Friday to Sunday) Macau registered according to the ... -
MGTO expects 48,000 daily tourists over CNY
The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has forecast approximately 48,000 visitors per day for the upcoming Lunar New Year (CNY) Holidays. The MGTO’s acting director, Cheng ... -
Macau among top destinations for mainland tourists
Data from the Trip.com Group, formerly known as Ctrip, shows that of orders from Chinese mainland customers, flights from or for Macau, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, ... -
Free return tickets to roll out for Hong Kong residents
Hong Kong residents are entitled to a buy-one-get-one-free offer in the form of free return ticket for use on another day upon purchase of a shuttle ... -
City center filled with tourists in long-awaited reopening
The city is bustling: touristic places are filled with visitors, traffic jams occupy the central district, and long queues are being observed at taxi stands as ... -
Visitors slowly return, 61,901 recorded over New Year’s weekend
There has been an increase in visitors to Macau over the holiday period. During the three-day New Year’s weekend (Dec. 31 to Jan. 2), the Public ... -
November visitors plunge 54%
Visitor arrivals suffered a plunge of 54.3% year-on-year and 36.8% month-on-month to 366,511 in November, as the neighboring region saw a rise in coronavirus cases. Initially, ... -
‘Tourism +’ to increase in 2023
Activities under “Tourism +” are likely to increase over 2023, the director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said at ... -
Visitor arrivals falling short of expectations: Insiders
The month-to-date visitor arrivals in Macau fell short of the high expectations of the tourism industry, despite the eagerly awaited return of the Macau Grand Prix. ... -
Mainland group tours still ‘on the table’
The head of the local tourism board reiterated that an official announcement on the resumption of mainland excursions is still awaited. Recently, tourists were seen in ... -
Beijing to resume issuing eVisas today, ‘great boon’ for Macau
The resumption of electronic visas for mainland travelers to Macau will commence November 1, a move that has long been awaited by the tourism sector since ... -
September arrivals down 11% from 2021
Total visitor arrivals for September this year amounted to 557,842. The figure is a drop of 11.3% year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Service notes. The same ... -
Gov’t satisfied with Golden Week arrivals, hotel occupancy at 67%
The October 1 to 7 National Day Holiday, also known as the “Golden Week” of the National Day, ended last Friday, with the city recording some ... -
Tourist arrivals over 143,000 in first five days of holidays
The first five days of the Golden Week National Holiday recorded 143,102 tourist arrivals: figures the government has dubbed “gratifying.” The first day of the holiday ... -
Tourism chief hopes for daily tourist arrivals of 20,000 during Oct. 1 holidays
At a press event yesterday, a tourism official expressed his hope that the city will attract 20,000 visitors per day during the seven-day October 1 holidays ... -
August hotel guests down 10.4% y-o-y
August hotel guest numbers declined 10.4% year-on-year to 390,000, data from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) shows. Mainland guests (263,000) and local guests (104,000) fell ... -
Tourism sector hails reinstatement of China visas
Local associations have expressed confidence and support as the central government greenlighted the resumption of group tours to Macau and mainland visas by the end of ... -
MGTO expresses hope for upcoming Golden week
For the upcoming Golden week, offline promotion will be paused to attract more visitors through online promotion, said the Macao Government Tourism Office director, Maria Helena ... -
August visitors down 19% y-o-y
Visitor arrivals recorded a staggering increase in August, totaling 331,397, attributable to the easing of cross-border measures between Zhuhai and Macau in early August. Although the ... -
Local tours extended to December
Due to the popularity of “Stay, Dine and See Macao” activities, the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has decided to extend the period of operation from ... -
Visitor arrivals reach highest August daily tally
Visitor arrivals reached 18,620 on August 27, the highest daily number since the lifting of quarantine restriction in early August, according to the Macao Government Tourism ... -
Tourism sector hopes for rebound amid staff shortage
With the resuming of quarantine-free travel between Macau and Zhuhai, the travel sector is confident that it would see color in visitor arrivals during the next ... -
MGTO to resume ‘Macao Week’ in September
The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) is set to resume its in-person promotional campaigns with visits to different regions after the city’s coronavirus outbreak in mid-June ... -
Visitor numbers drop 24% y-o-y in April
Visitor arrivals rose by 15.2% month-on-month to 606,841 in April, yet the figure still represents a year-on-year drop of 23.7%, according to the Statistics and Census ... -
Visitor spending totaled MOP6.6b in Q1
The total expenditure by visitors (excluding gaming expenses) rose by 6.7% year-on-year to MOP6.59 billion in the first quarter of 2022, despite the consecutive downturn in ... -
MGTO hopes for 60% hotel occupancy amid further extended NAT validity
With further easing of disease control measures, the head of the city’s tourism board hopes the hotel occupancy rate will reach 60% over the coming Labor ... -
Visitor arrivals expected to exceed 25,000 during Golden Week
Arrivals to Macau reached an average of 22,000 on the first Friday and Saturday that Guangdong Province relaxed the validity of nucleic acid tests (NAT) to ... -
Gov’t to resume ‘Macao weeks’ on the mainland in H2
The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) is planning to resume its promotional campaigns for Macau as a tourism destination, known as “Macao weeks,” in several mainland ... -
February visitors down 5.6% despite CNY arrivals
The Macau SAR saw a decrease of 5.6% month-on-month in visitor arrivals, which totaled 655,505 in February, according to data from the Statistics and Census Service ... -
Half a billion travelers show China’s economy moving past Covid
Hotel prices shot up, ride-hailing apps crashed, tickets to the Great Wall sold out: after more than nine long, housebound months, almost half a billion ... -
Beijing thought likely to approve Ho Iat Seng’s request for IVS resumption
The Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) for mainland tourists intending to travel to Macau may be resumed after the upcoming 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) this month, ... -
Macau among Guangdong residents travel wish list after Covid-19
Macau is one of the city’s most popular tourism destinations among those who live in Guangdong province, particularly once Covid-19 is gone, according to a report ... -
Macau’s visitor expenditure down by 8% in 2019
The total spending of visitors to the city excluding gaming expenses in 2019 dropped by 8.0 percent year-on-year to 64.08 billion patacas (about $7.98 billion), ... -
Tourism | Hospitality industry confident in CNY performance
The vice president of the Macau Hoteliers and Innkeepers Association, Kenny Cheung, predicted that hotels in Macau will be catering mainly to independent tourists over ...
