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2021-04-14 12:35:57 GMT2021-04-14 20:35:57(Beijing Time) Xinhua English MACAO, April 14 (Xinhua) -- The Tourist Price Index (TPI) of Macao for the first quarter of 2021 went down by 15.16 percent year on year to 115.78, the special administrative regions statistics service said here on Wednesday. The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) showed that the decrease was on account of lower hotel room rates, reduced prices of local food products and falling airfares. The...

As part of a fresh economic-stimulus package announced on Monday, the Macau government is to waive from May to December this year, an estimated MOP440-million (US$55.0 million) in tourism tax normally levied at 5 percent on services provided by local hotels, bars, karaoke venues and massage parlours. Additionally, the local government is to spend up to MOP120 million – about US$15 million – during the April to December period, in subsidising local residents either for a single stay at one o...

But China still needs to lift e-visa restrictions before a rebound can really begin.

The number of hotel rooms in Macau is set to increase by at least one-quarter over the next few years. As of the fourth quarter last year there were 17 hotel projects under construction, the latest data from Macau’s Land, Public Works and Transport Bureau show. That would provide the city with 8,607 new hotel rooms. The data did not give estimated completion dates for the new hotel projects. A further 20 projects were in a planning stage at the end of last year, which would eventually provid...

Macau starts 2021 with GGR down 63.7% 1st February 2021 | By Richard Mulligan Macau started 2021 with another month of year-on-year decline according to figures released by the Chinese Special Administrative Region’s authorities. Gross gaming revenue was at MOP8.02bn ($1.0bn/€826.0m/£729.0m), which was down 63.7% compared to January 2020, according to the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau. It was a 12 th month in a row in which Macau has seen a year-on-year decrease of more than 50...

Macau’s average occupancy rate for hotels and guest houses for December reached 53.1 percent, the highest level since January 2020, when it stood at 79.4 percent according to Macua government data, before the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic took hold. December did however have fewer hotel rooms in operation – a total of 35,100, versus about 39,000 in January 2020. The difference was due to factors including that some establishments this December were being used for medical quarantine of pe...

2021-01-28 16:36:08 GMT2021-01-29 00:36:08(Beijing Time) Xinhua English MACAO, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Macaos hospitality industry, a pillar industry of the special administrative region (SAR), has been striving to recover despite the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. A report released Thursday by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) showed that the number of guests checking into Macaos hotels and guesthouses in December 2020 reached 579,000, an increase of 22.4 percent from the previous...

Macau could see on average per day, a lower visitor-arrival tally during the upcoming February Chinese New Year break, when compared to the Christmas-holiday daily average in the December 23 to 27 period inclusive, suggested the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) director, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, in comments to local media on Saturday. “We have estimated that on average, the [daily] visitor arrivals for this year’s Chinese New Year break could turn out to be a bit weaker than ...

2021-01-14 13:35:55 GMT2021-01-14 21:35:55(Beijing Time) Xinhua English MACAO, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Macaos average Tourist Price Index (TPI) for 2020 went down by 8.2 percent year on year to 122.88, the special administrative regions statistics service said on Thursday. The decrease was largely attributable to a marked year-on-year drop in hotel room rates amid the COVID-19 pandemic, lower charges for restaurant services, as well as reduced prices of clothing and local food products. Howe...

A senior official representing the health authority in mainland China’s Guangdong, has called on the public in the province of more than 100 million people, to spend their February Chinese New Year (CNY) break within its boundaries, as a precaution against the risk of spreading Covid-19. Visitors from Guangdong province made up nearly 60 percent of Macau’s mainland Chinese visitors for the first eleven months of 2020, according to latest data available from Macau’s Statistics and Census S...