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Tap Siac Craft Market in spring calls for stall operators and creative handicraft workshops
Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym), the Tap Siac Craft Market in spring will be held from 18 to 21 and from 25 to 28 April at Tap Siac Square. The calls for stall operators and creative handicraft workshops will be open from 30 January to 22 February. Applications are free of charge.
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Macao promoted at Spanish international travel fair FITUR to expand international visitor source markets from Europe in line with the “1+4” development strategy
The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) organized a Macao Business Breakfast and other destination promotional initiatives at one of the worlds leading international travel fairs, FITUR 2024, held January 24 to 28 in Madrid, Spain, to enhance cooperation with Spanish travel trade and increase European travelers’ intention to visit Macao, as part of the work to diversify international visitor source markets.
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UM research team discovers chemical defence system in traditional Chinese medicine Panax notoginseng
A research team led by Wan Jianbo, professor at the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences and the State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine of the University of Macau (UM), in collaboration with research teams from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Southwest Forestry University, has made a groundbreaking discovery in the plant chemical defence of traditional Chinese medicine Sanqi (Panax notoginseng). The study unveiled a two-component chemical defence system in Panax notoginseng mediated by chloroplast-localised β-glucosidase and 20(S)-protopanaxadiol ginsenosides, which will contribute to a deeper understanding of how Panax species defend against pathogens and provide valuable insights for the development of sustainable botanical pesticides. The research results have been published in the internationally renowned journal Nature Communications.
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CE hopes Macanese community can accurately grasp opportunities of our times
The Chief Executive, Mr Ho Iat Seng, today said he hoped that the Macanese community could accurately grasp the development trajectory of our times, making full use of development opportunities and maintaining the forward push of the various community initiatives, in order to scale new heights.
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[2024 Online Training Sessions Launched] IPIM Invites Experts to Share New Ideas for Developing International Exhibition Brands
The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) launched an online training on exhibition trends today (26th), which was the first of its kind in the new year. Themed on “The Importance of Participating in International Professional Exhibition Associations”, three industry experts who had held important positions in international convention and exhibition associations were invited to share their experiences with 54 industry representatives at home and abroad. The topics of online training session were about how convention and exhibition destination management companies, integrated resorts, and venue suppliers make good use of international exhibition professional associations to establish their professional images, elevate their influence and explore more business and co-operation opportunities.
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Package tours and hotel occupancy rate for December and the whole year of 2023
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that a total of 142 hotel establishments offered accommodation services to the public at the end of 2023, an increase of 19 year-on-year. Total number of available guest rooms grew by 23.5% to 47,000. For the whole year of 2023, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotel establishments went up by 43.1 percentage points year-on-year to 81.5%; the rates for 2-star (85.1%) and 5-star hotels (82.5%) were relatively high, which showed respective growth of 36.3 percentage points and 48.3 percentage points.
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[Facilitating 1+4 Industries’ Expansion] IPIM Macao Ideas Website Is Now Equipped with VR Display to Promote Macao’s Products
The website (https://macaoideas.ipim.gov.mo/) of Macao Ideas has been upgraded recently. Macao Ideas is an exhibition centre established by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) to promote “Made in Macao”, “Macao Brand” and “Macao Design” products, it currently exhibits around 1,700 products from over 100 Macao enterprises. In additional to the website’s original multi-media contents, the online Virtual Reality (VR) display have been launched, and the keyword search function and social networking site sharing function have been optimised, it enables domestic and overseas traders to obtain information about Macao’s products in one stop.
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FSS Encourages the Use of Electronic Methods to Provide the Proof of Life for the Year
In 2024, there are approximately 159,000 pension or disability pension beneficiaries who need to provide the proof of life to the Social Security Fund (abbreviated to FSS in Macao). Currently, about 139,000 people have already provided the proof, of which 118,000 have done it electronically, accounting for about 85%. The FSS encourages beneficiaries who have not provided the proof of life to use electronic methods such as the "Macao One Account" which is time-saving and convenient.
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MGTO and Macao travel trade attend Halal event in Hong Kong eying Islamic visitors to diversify international source markets as part of “1+4” development strategy
A Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) and Macao travel trade delegation is participating in a Halal related exhibition held in Hong Kong, to enhance the know-how and industry connections to expand the food and other offerings to cater for Islamic visitors from Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other destinations, as part of the work to attract more international visitors.
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