• MGTO representatives from overseas plus the industry and local and international media will attend this year’s Conference

MGTO Hosting Annual Press Conference in January

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The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) is scheduled to launch its Annual Press Conference on 17th January, at which MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes will deliver a wrap-up of last year's activities and introduce the marketing and promotional programme for 2018. Hundreds of local guests plus MGTO and its representatives from overseas, local industry partners, as well as local and international media personnel, will attend.

'Macao Year of Gastronomy' will be the promotion theme of this year. With multimedia and other innovative promotional strategies, MGTO's advertising will target consumers in the city's main tourist source markets via food expos, promotion and exchange sessions with celebrity chefs, food truck, culinary workshops, guides for local gourmands, website, feature articles, television programmes, social media, mobile apps and so forth.

Meanwhile, MGTO will publish a pamphlet introducing the progress of Macao's application as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy, collecting information from various public and private sectors for the promotion of and participation in related activities of the UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy.

For more information on the Annual Press Conference, please visit MGTO Macao Tourism Industry Net on 17th January: http://industry.macaotourism.gov.mo.