Entries Categorized as 'Travel'
January 14, 2008
Macau saw 459,093 visitor arrivals in package tours in November 2007, up notably by 58.5% year-on-year. Visitors from Mainland China (331,741), Hong Kong (33,005) and Taiwan, China (25,183) recorded remarkable growth of 54.7%, 52.0% and 85.3% respectively compared with November 2006. In the first eleven months of 2007, visitors arrived in package tours surged by 46.1% over the same period of 2006 to 3,802,059. This come hot on the news that Macau is now busting at it’s seams!
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January 10, 2008
Hot on the news that Hong Kong’s Disneyland is struggling financially due to a drop in the number of visitors comes the news that Macau visitor numbers is close to overtake those of Hong Kong.
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December 27, 2007
Again Macau breaks new records with the arrival of about 779,000 vistors during the Christmas holidays, with at least thirty thousand Hong Kong people congesting the entry ways of Macau as most of them began their Christmas holidays on Tuesday.
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December 25, 2007
Ticket touts are increasingly working the ferry terminals between Hong Kong and Macau, cashing in on the tourism boom in the territory that has revealed the inadequacy of ferry services.
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December 21, 2007
Macau continues to receive record numbers of visitors, as the number of visitor arrivals reached 2,458,120 in November 2007, representing a year-on-year increase of 26.1%. Visitors from Mainland China and Hong Kong rose by 31.2% and 10.3% respectively, with those from Southeast Asia soared by 85.4%. Meanwhile, same-day visitors accounted for 52.1% of the total arrivals, at 1,280,484.
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December 19, 2007
As expected Chinese authorities will now, starting next year, to make it possible for mainland tourists to complain to home travel watchdogs to report feigned products they bought in Macau as travel authorities launched a nationwide campaign to offer “trustworthy shopping” in the city.
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December 18, 2007
The Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) has disqualified the agency involved in the Hebei tour group incident at Hac Sa Beach from operating Macau tours. See Chinese Tourists Turn Against Tour Leaders.
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December 15, 2007
The promised first Macau to Vancouver flight from locally registered Metis TransPacific Charter Airlines will not take to the sky today, confirmed the Civil Aviation Authority (AAC) yesterday.
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