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Owing to the pandemic situation, local tours under the “Stay, Dine and See Macao” project were suspended from 25 September to 22 October. As the pandemic situation moves towards stability in Macao, operation of the local tours will resume from this Saturday (23 October) onwards. Interested individuals can sign up for the tours through travel agencies under the project or the special information counters at six local hotels and integrated resorts.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals soared by 53.7% month-on-month to 629,085 in September 2021, attributable to the easing of entry and exit requirements of Macao that took place during most of the month; the figure also represented a growth of 40.1% year-on-year. Numbers of same-day visitors (348,058) and overnight visitors (281,027) rose by 20.2% and 76.1% year-on-year respectively. Meanwhile, the average length of stay of visitors went up by 0.6 day year-on-year to 1.6 days, with that of overnight visitors (3.3 days) extending by 0.6 day whereas that of same-day visitors (0.1 day) remaining unchanged.
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The Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) continues to cooperate on the prevention and control of the epidemic. After listening to the opinions of the Health Department, and taking into account the preparation work of each school, if the epidemic continues to stabilize, non-tertiary education schools will resume classes from October 25 onwards, and higher education institutions can also resume face-to-face teaching from the same day. Schools and institutions must strictly implement various epidemic prevention guidelines issued by DSEDJ and the Health Department, thoroughly clean and disinfect the campus before the resumption of classes.
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The Communications Museum re-opens on 21/10/2021 (Thursday) and admission to the visitors, local residents and tourists, will be fully exempted.
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The Chief Executive, Mr Ho Iat Seng, today said law-based governance was a cornerstone value of Macao. To achieve that, firm adherence to safeguarding the dignity and authority of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China and of the Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR) was of the utmost importance, he stated.
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On 30 Aug, 1, 6 and 8 September 2021, the Global Centre of Tourism Education and Training of the Macao Institute for Tourism Studies delivered a training programme over a 4-day period on Strategic Management for the final year hospitality degree students of Sunway University, Malaysia. Around 70 students attended the training. This is the first training and exchange activity between the Global Centre for Tourism Education and Training of Macao Institute for Tourism Studies and Sunway University. This programme comprised 8 webinars on the topics Crisis Management, Organization & Operations at the Strategic Level, Human Resource Management and Leadership and Strategic Change.
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The Law No. 8/2021 on the Operation of Hotel Establishments will come into effect on 1 January 2022. Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) held four online introduction seminars this week to elaborate the key points and familiarize the trade with the new Law.
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Healthquarantine requirements and measures for inbound travellers of different identities.
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In view of the gradual alleviation of COVID-19 pandemic in Macao, the Portuguese-speaking Countries Food Products Exhibition Centre under the guidance of the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) will resume opening to the public from 21 October 2021.
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