Mainland Chinese Visitors Increases by 10.6%

Date September 25, 2008

The latest Macau statistics indicates that visitor arrivals totalled 2,583,372 in August 2008, a year-on-year increase of 8.5%. Visitors from Mainland China (1,488,084) and Hong Kong (757,784) rose by 10.6% and 5.2% respectively, while those from Taiwan, China (112,454) decreased by 7.0%. Same-day visitors took up 52.6% of the total arrivals, at 1,357,855.

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In Future No More Macau Visa Requirement For Taiwanese

Date September 14, 2008

According to the president of the Council for Chinese Affairs, Lai Shin Yuan, an organisation that works with the relations between China and Taiwan, Taiwan wishes to increase official contact with Hong Kong and Macau.

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