Macau visitor arrivals reached 2,713,457 in March 2008, a year-on-year increase of 25.6%. Visitors from Mainland China (1,566,179), Hong Kong (743,250) and Southeast Asia (153,921) grew by 32.4%, 11.5% and 60.4% respectively. Same-day visitors accounted for 53.2% of the total arrivals, at 1,444,785.

The majority of the visitors came from Mainland China and Hong Kong, which accounted for 57.7% and 27.4% of the total respectively. Among the Mainland visitors, 43.3% (678,822) travelled to Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme.

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Macao registered a record high of 26,992,995 visitor arrivals in 2007, up by 23% over 2006; visitors from Mainland China and Hong Kong accounted for 55% and 30% of the total respectively. Mainland visitors travelled to Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme totalled 7,165,203, up by 24%. Visitor arrivals in package tours rose notably by 45% to 4,233,714.

In 2007, the number of Macao residents travelled in package tours dropped by 22% over 2006 to 212,107 and those travelled under individual arrangements using services provided by travel agencies increased by 4% to 386,927.

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Air Macau will add an extra flight day on the route from Macau to Beijing starting March 31.

Fei Hongjun, general manager of Air Macau said that this additional service will be helpful for development of business, trade and tourism of Macau and Beijing and will provide more options for tourists during the 2008 Olympic Games.

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Macau saw 388,796 visitor arrivals in package tours in January 2008, up by 22.8% from a year earlier. Visitors from Mainland China (282,506), Hong Kong (22,604) and Taiwan, China (18,079) recorded year-on-year growth of 21.4%, 13.2% and 5.8% respectively.

In January 2008, the number of Macao residents traveling in package tours rose by 27.7% year-on-year to 13,536. Mainland China, Japan and Thailand were the three most popular tour itineraries, which accounted for 55.2%, 17.6% and 7.5% of the total respectively.

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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.

The campaign started just days after officials from the Macau tourism bureau came to Beijing on Saturday to report a dispute between mainland tourists and Macau tour guides and police to the National Tourism Administration.

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It was announced today that Macau has been chosen to host the 11th Asia Pacific Life Insurance Congress, a convention that will be attended by over 8,000 people, the largest convention ever booked to the city. It is also the first major convention booking by the MGTO’s Macau Business Tourism Centre since its opening last year.

The organizers of the convention, the Asia Pacific Financial Services Association (APFinSA), have chosen Macau to host its annual gathering in the spring of 2009, after a site inspection, which was coordinated by the Macau Business Tourism Centre.

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Mind you it’s not that Macau has been starved of beauty pageants, and as the story is floating around that there will a resurrection of the Miss Macau pageant later this year, which has been dormant since 1997, we thought it maybe usuful to give you some interesting facts about Miss Macao as there are three of them!

Miss Asia Pageant 2006 winner Daryna Shevchenko poses after winning the Miss Asia Pageant in Macau, Monday, Oct. 30, 2006.

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The government of Macau is soon to explore the tourist markets of the Middle East and India, where Malaysia has had vast experience and could be an aid to Macau in terms of diversifying the territory’s tourist markets, the head of the Macau government said.

The announcement was made by Edmund HO at the end of an official visit to Malaysia where he met with the country’s prime minister and Finance Minister, Seri Abdullah Bin Hj Ahmad Badawi and the Foreign Relations and Tourism Minister, Seri Syed Hamid Albar, with whom he discussed issues related to bilateral cooperation, particularly in the area of tourism.

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