Tourism | Macau promoted at Sapporo Snow Festival

Alexis Tam (center) and other guests pictured during the ceremony that marked the delivery of the Macau sculpture

The Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, Alexis Tam, is heading a delegation that is taking part in the Sapporo Snow Festival for the first time.
The famous event, which kicks off today, attracts around two million visitors to the Japanese city every year. Macau will be promoted during this year’s festival through an ice sculpture of the iconic Ruins of St Paul that will be on display. A video mapping show will be projected onto the sculpture.
According to a statement issued yesterday by the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), a local café will be set up in the festival grounds and several promotional activities will be organized in order to attract more international visitors.
The 67th edition of the Sapporo Snow Festival will take place in the city located in Hokkaido prefecture until February 11, featuring more than 200 ice sculptures at three display locations across a 1.5 kilometer-long exhibition area. The central point of the display is in Odori Park.
Alexis Tam attended a ceremony yesterday marking the delivery of the Macau sculpture where he said that he was confident that this promotion of the city through the Sapporo Snow Festival would attract more Japanese citizens and international visitors to the territory.  RM