ARRIVALS to Macau leapt 7.5 per cent year-on-year to surpass 31.5 million in total visitor arrivals for last year, announced the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO).
Revealing last year’s figures at the annual press conference at Macau Tower Convention and Entertainment Centre, director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes also outlined MGTO’s strategies for 2015.
She said that in order for Macau to become a “world centre of tourism and leisure”, the NTO would continue to invest efforts in scientific planning, destination marketing, product development and service enhancement.
With the Lunar New Year holidays just ahead, Macau expects to welcome five per cent more visitors or 105 million, in a span of seven days.
However, Macau recently made international headlines after its gambling revenue was reported to have fallen more than 15 per cent year-on-year in January, the eighth consecutive month of decline, reported Reuters.
Chinese high rollers are said to have been scared off as the government clamps down on corruption.
