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【MGTO】“Experience Macao, Unlimited” Caravan Roadshow Series across the Greater Bay Area culminated in success
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The joint online registration for the exchange of the Tiger and Rabbit Zodiac banknotes, together with the previously issued the XXIV Olympic Winter Games banknotes, will commence next Monday (17 April 2023).
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April is the contribution month of the first quarter of 2023 for the Social Security System. The Social Security Fund (abbreviated to FSS in Macao) has added an electronic payment service to the “Macao One Account”. Employers may use the “Macao One Account” for payment of obligatory system contributions for employees who have no change in their employment situation or whose employment information has been reported through the Electronic Filing System, as well as payment of employment fee for non-resident workers. Beneficiaries of arbitrary system can also pay contributions through the “Macao One Account” in this month.
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In tandem with the Macao Special Administrative Region Government’s courtesy visit in Europe, the “Experience Macao Unlimited – Macao Promotion in Lisbon” will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from 15 – 22 April. The event represents Macao’s first in-person tourism promotion in Europe after the pandemic. It will showcase Macao’s offer of new travel experiences to spark European’s interest in visiting Macao, in progress with the city’s development of international visitor markets for tourism and economic revival.
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In the first quarter of this year (2023), Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) rolled out “Macao Treat”, the buy-one-get-one-free special offer (in the form of free return tickets) for purchase of Hong Kong – Macao shuttle bus and ferry tickets by Hong Kong residents. The special offer yielded satisfactory result. Another advanced special offer will ensue in the second phase from April to June, catering not just for Hong Kong residents but also for visitors from Taiwan region and international markets. The objective is to attract overnight visitors from a wider variety of source markets and energize travelers’ interest in Macao for tourism and economic revival.
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In order to give full play to Macao’s advantages as a platform to promote China-PSC exchanges and co-operation in business and trade, while strengthening Macao’s function as a distribution centre for Portuguese-speaking countries food, the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIJM) recently organised 12 Macao entrepreneurs to participate in the “Sagal Expo Lisboa 2023”.
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To assist Macao in developing its MICE industry in the policy direction of market-orientation and specialisation, the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) and representatives of five MICE business associations and six integrated tourism and leisure enterprises held a meeting, and visited some of the large exhibition venues and design expositions, jointly planning on the work deployment related to upgrading MICE software facilities and design quality of MICE events, in the pursuit of the specialisation of the MICE industry. The relevant representatives from the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Co-operation Zone also attended the meeting.
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The 33^rd Macao Arts Festival (MAF), organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym), will be held from 28 April to 28 May, with many programmes having seen favourable responses since tickets went on sale. Due to the public’s overwhelming responses, the IC will offer some additional seats for the grand opening programme Rite of Spring and On Substance of Time. Tickets for the additional seats will be on sale simultaneously through the Macau Ticketing Network outlets, online and telephone booking from 10am on 7 April.
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