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Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) will close the Grand Prix Museum, the Wine Museum and the Tourism Activities Centre (Centro de Actividades Turísticas - CAT), starting from July 1 (next Saturday), in order to conduct preparation works ahead of the remodeling of the building to transform it into the new Macau Grand Prix themed museum.
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Mr. Nie Changbin, Vice Secretary-General of the People’s Government of Hubei Province, leading a group of delegates from the Province, visited the Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) on 22 June 2017. The delegation was warmly received by Professor Im Sio Kei, Acting President of MPI and the Institute’s teaching staff and students. Both parties enthusiastically exchanged their views on fostering the collaboration between universities in Hubei and MPI regarding the academic exchange of their teachers and students. The delegation had friendly conversations with Hubei students who have come to study at MPI, learning about their campus life and encouraging them to study hard to contribute to various aspects of cooperation between Hubei and Portuguese-speaking countries.
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Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) holds its Annual Marketing Meeting 2017 in Macao from 19^th to 23^rd June. 42 participants including MGTO’s market representatives and PR consultant as well as personnel of the Macao Special Administrative Region Delegations from around the world attends the meeting to report on the progress of current projects and discuss marketing plans.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 2,570,428 in May 2017, up by 3.7% year-on-year and down by 6.3% month-to-month. Overnight visitors (1,376,336) went up by 14.2% year-on-year while same-day visitors (1,194,092) decreased by 6.1%. The average length of stay of visitors rose by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.3 days; overnight visitors and same-day visitors stayed an average of 2.2 days and 0.2 day respectively, the same as in May last year.
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Macao and Shanghai continued to foster cooperation efforts on financial services, tourism, education, technology and sports, said the Chief Executive, Mr Chui Sai On.
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Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) received close to 30 alumni from the world’s top business school, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for a one-day visit today (22 June), which include presentations, networking, site visits, tasting Macao gourmet and more.
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Consumer Council conducted its latest ‘Supermarket price survey’ in June on 22 June for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Surveyed locations included 12 supermarkets in Taipa and Coloane area.
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The Electoral Affairs Commission for the Legislative Assembly Election confirmed that as of Wednesday (June 21) it had approved 27 applications for legal status as submitted by respective nomination committees.
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The Chief Executive, Mr Chui Sai On, today said – as he set off for a two-day visit to Shanghai – that closer Macao-Shanghai ties would produce reciprocal benefits for the two places.
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In order to provide diversified training opportunities for industry professionals and enhance management quality of the local service industry, Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) and Cornell University School of Hotel Administration co-orgainsed an Executive Development Programme on “Hospitality Financial Management: Operations Decision-Making” on 20 and 21 June.
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