Typhoon Hato, the strongest tropical storm recorded in 53 years, landed a direct hit on Macao on 23rd August. Under the direction of Macao SAR Chief Executive Chui Sai On, the government organized a series of post-storm follow-up work...
Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) is making unremitting efforts to co-ordinate and handle various tasks in the wake of Typhoon Hato in the hope of minimizing its impact upon visitors, holding urgent meetings with representatives of the tourism industry to help restore the city's recovery from the catastrophe....
In order to focus energy and resources on the recovery work to reverse the damage wrought by Typhoon Hato, the Macao SAR Government announced the cancellation of 16 public, festive, cultural and recreational events, as well as exchange activities...
Multiple preparations are underway for Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Travel Mart 2017 to be held in Macao from 13th to 15th September. Hosted by Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), PATA Travel Mart is one of Asia Pacific's premier travel trade shows attracting tourism officials...
Annual activities have been held on 27th September - designated by the World Tourism Organization as World Tourism Day since 1980 - with this year no exception. The purpose of World Tourism Day is to promote awareness among the international community of the significance of tourism, especially in regard to its social...
The 22nd Session of the UNWTO General Assembly - will be held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province from 11th to 16th September - themed 'Tourism and the SDGs: Journey to 2030'. The Deputy Director of the Macao Government Tourism Office, Cecilia Tse and Head of Organisational Planning...
From the beginning of September to December, perhaps the most exciting period of the year in Macao, Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) will launch multiple activities (in chronological order) in Hong Kong, Taiwan region, Malaysia...
The 31st Macao International Music Festival (MIMF), organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), will be held from 29th September to 30th October, taking 'Rising Stars' as its theme this year. Leading musicians and ensembles from Italy, South Africa, Germany, Russia, the United States, Austria, Portugal, South Korea...
Macao SAR Government signed an agreement with the Alibaba Group on 4th August to further develop Macao as a Smart City by employing Alibaba's big data processing capabilities and cloud computing to enhance the quality of the city's public services...
The Committee for the World Centre of Tourism and Leisure held its first plenary meeting of the year on 28th July, chaired by Chief Executive of the Macao SAR and President of the Committee Chui Sai On. During the meeting, the Committee listened to an evaluation of the Five-Year Development Plan...
The Macao SAR Committee of Cultural Industries held a special plenary meeting on 20th July chaired by the Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture and Chairman of the Committee, Alexis Tam, during which he announced the creation of the Gastronomy and Cultural Industries Promotion Taskforce...
AirAsia launched its first regular flights - three a week - between Macao and Jakarta on 7th August, increasing to four flights per week from 1st September...
MGM Cotai, a HK$26 billion integrated resort, is creating first-of-its-kind entertainment experiences in Asia through the MGM Theatre at Cotai, described as Asia's first dynamic theatre. Seating up to 2,000 people, the theatre is the world's first to offer '28 million pixels of viewing pleasure' by utilizing...
The Macao SAR Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) has released tourism related statistics, which reveal that in the first half of 2017, visitor arrivals totalled 15,564,303, up 5.4 per cent year-on-year, during which time guests of hotels & guesthouses totalled 6,345,000, up 15.8 per cent year-on-year...