Travel alert system to switch on this year

Director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, has advised that the Macau travel alert system will be launched within this year, the media reported.
Ms. Senna Fernandes added in her comments to the public broadcaster, TDM, that  the Bureau could only issue travel alerts as a warning or reminder for the moment since there is no specific legislation for the alerts to have legal effect.
The system, originally announced last year, will be launched within this year, she said, adding that no clause regarding compensation has been added to the draft of the relevant law.
“We are talking with the insurance industry. They need time to design new products or revise existing compensation clauses in accordance with the new travel alert system to be launched,” said the MGTO Director. “We’re also in contact with the Monetary Authority to determine the best timing to launch the system. It will certainly be within this year,” she concluded.
In the first phase, the system will include all the frequent travel destinations of local residents as well as all the Portuguese-speaking countries, 74 countries in total.
Also to be in place within this summer will be the so-called “terror threat level” system, revealed Wong Fai, Vice president of the Travel Industry Council of Macau (TICM), to TDM.
Speaking to the public TV broadcaster, Wong said that the tourism industry had been talking with MGTO regarding the progress of the establishing the territory’s “terror threat level” system, which is making progress.
“A terror threat level is a reference for the tourism industry and tourists,” the Vice president of TICM added. RM