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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 had in recent times become more affordable for visitors. The Macau government would continue next ye...

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 Region's (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 and 312,557 respectively. The average stay length of visitors went up by 0.5 day year-on-year to 1....

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 percent gaming tax directly levied on GGR is expected to reach MOP45.5 billion, while the government...