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2020-12-31 11:05:15 GMT2020-12-31 19:05:15(Beijing Time) Xinhua English MACAO, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- The total merchandise import to Macao expanded by 56.6 percent year on year to 13.43 billion patacas (about 1.68 billion U.S. dollars) in November 2020, the special administrative regions statistical service said on Thursday. The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) showed that the imports of beauty, cosmetic and skincare products, perfumes, and handbags and wallets s...

2020-12-31 14:35:16 GMT2020-12-31 22:35:16(Beijing Time) Xinhua English MACAO, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- The total merchandise export from Macao amounted to 957 million patacas (about 119.8 million U.S. dollars) in November, down by 15.7 percent year on year, the special administrative regions (SAR) statistic department said here on Thursday. The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the value of re-exports dropped by 16.6 percent to 810 million patacas in ...

At least four of Macau’s six casino operators have already extended into 2021 the arrangement for voluntary unpaid leave for their respective gaming staff, three local labour groups have respectively told GGRAsia. Local gaming staff are nonetheless feeling “more secure” about their employment outlook, compared to early 2020 and the opening stages of the Covid-19 crisis, the labour group leaders remarked. “Basically all the unpaid leave policies that the casino operators offered so far a...

2020-12-30 10:37:58 GMT2020-12-30 18:37:58(Beijing Time) Xinhua English MACAO, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Macaos cross-border vehicle traffic in November fell by 27.4 percent year on year to 332,073 trips, the special administrative regions statistical service said on Wednesday. The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) showed that the light automobile trips and heavy truck trips dropped by 25.5 percent and 8.4 percent, respectively, to 302,176, and 28,379. During the peri...

Macau’s daily average visitor arrivals from December 23 to 27 inclusive – referred to by the  local tourism authority as “Christmas” season – showed a double-digit percentage increase sequentially, and was better in real-numbers terms than the whole of November’s performance versus October, and better than the whole of October’s performance versus September. Average hotel occupancy during the Christmas festive period also reached a fourth-quarter high of nearly 70 percent, accord...

Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, director of Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), has told local media that some of the city’s hotels have seen improving occupancy trends during December. “Currently, many tourists here are staying in Macau overnight… in some hotels the occupancy rate is even up to around 80 percent,” said the MGTO director in comments on Saturday on the sidelines of an event. She did not name the hotels concerned, but noted that the city’s hotel room nightly rates ...

2020-12-23 11:06:04 GMT2020-12-23 19:06:04(Beijing Time) Xinhua English MACAO, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- The number of visitor arrivals in Macao grew 9.3 percent month-on-month to 636,351 in November, but the figure still represented a decline of 78.1 percent year-on-year, the Macao Special Administrative Regions (SAR) statistics department said on Wednesday. The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that overnight visitors and same-day visitors totaled 323,794 ...

Macau could receive “14 million” tourist arrivals from mainland China and Hong Kong in 2021, estimates the Macau government. That was the figure the local authorities used in their already-released forecast of 2021 casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) reaching MOP130 billion (US$16.28 billion) for the same fiscal year. The estimated 2021 visitor tally emerged on Wednesday as part of Macau’s 2021 fiscal budget plan presented to the city’s Legislative Assembly. Macau’s take from the 35 p...