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Visitors’ average stay in Macao has been shortening. That may not be such a bad thing.
Macao News
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August 28, 2025
Travellers left after an average of 1.1 days in Macao during the first half of 2025 – a pattern that, if continued, would make the average length of stay this year the lowest in a decade. Is that a bad thing? Not according to researcher Ali Bavik...
Macau ranks 29th in Asia on Tourism City Attractiveness Index, Osaka leads
Macau Daily Times
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August 25, 2025
Macau has ranked 29th in Asia’s Regional Ranking of the Tourism City Attractiveness Index. The ranking, which analyzes cities’ tourism attractiveness across four dimensions, including “Culture and History,” “Experiential Tourism Contents,”...
Macao is launching a fresh citywide consumption drive next month
Macao News
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August 25, 2025
The Macao government is set to kick off a new 13-week citywide consumption campaign, which will run from 1 September to 30 November. Jointly organised by the Economic and Technological Development Bureau (known by its Portuguese initials DSEDT)...
‘I want to show that a kid from Macao can work,’ says Macau Black Bears’ youngest star Leo Lei
Macao News
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August 28, 2025
Macao’s basketball scene has grown through the years, and Leo Lei has grown along with it. He’s a student at Keang Peng School who was raised shooting at a hoop his grandfather put up at home. The 17-year-old player also scored 20 points against...
Art Macao 2025 kicks off with city-wide exhibitions
Macao News
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August 27, 2025
The Macao International Art Biennale 2025 (otherwise known as Art Macao) is now underway, offering a diverse programme of over 30 exhibitions. Among the public art is Time Tower, recently unveiled at the Macao Cultural Centre Plaza. The...
Macau logs this year’s 8th imported chikungunya case
The Macau Post Daily
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Macau has recorded this year’s eighth imported case of chikungunya fever, the Health Bureau (SSM) has announced. The case, which was confirmed on Friday night, was announced in a statement on Saturday. According to the statement, the patient is a...
The Privileged Moment: Moët Hennessy launches ultra-personalised travel retail experience
DFNI-Frontier
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August 28, 2025
Moët Hennessy has launched The Privileged Moment, an ultra-personalised experience exclusively for premium shoppers in travel retail. Offering access to the maison’s “most harmonious cognac” Hennessy Paradis, the experience first launched at...
49 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall
Literary Hub
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September 4, 2025
Fall is the perfect time for curling up with a good book—or maybe a good movie. (We’re not monsters.) Even better if you can hit two birds with one stone, of course, and this after all is Literary Hub, so here we present the literary movies and TV...
Stay even without passport: Big relief for migrants
The Hans India
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September 4, 2025
New Delhi: Migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan belonging to six minority communities — Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain and Parsi — who entered India on or before December 31, 2024 on a valid passport or travel document or...
Turning hell into heaven: Macao priest Father Gaetano Nicosia embarks on the path to sainthood
Macao News
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August 28, 2025
Start from Sai Van Bridge and head south. Past the fast cars and faster talkers of Taipa’s town centre, past the hopeful gamblers and fastidious hoteliers on Cotai Strip. Take a left when you reach the Ilha de Coloane. There, tucked in the corner...
Jeju Dream Tower Overtakes Paradise City as South Korea’s Highest-Earning Tourist-Only Casino
Casino Beats
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August 27, 2025
The Jeju Dream Tower Casino has overtaken Paradise City to become South Korea’s highest-earning casino that only admits foreign passport holders. According to the South Korean newspaper Maeil Kyungjae, the Dream Tower Casino has recorded the...
Macau visitor arrivals surge 14.5% YoY in July, Mainland Chinese drive growth
Asia Gaming Brief
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August 24, 2025
Visitor arrivals to Macau increased by 14.5 percent year-on-year to 3.46 million in July 2025, with mainland Chinese visitation improving, according to data released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). The robust growth continues a...
Macau retail sales drop 1.4 pct in 2Q
The Macau Post Daily
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Macau retail sales drop 1.4 pct in 2Q Macau’s retail sales totalled 15.97 billion patacas in the second quarter of the year, a year-on-year decline of 1.4 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced in a statement. The bureau’s...
The 12th International Lion Dance Championship 2025 – MGM Cup to Roar into Action This October at Macau’s Barra Square
Macau Daily Times
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August 27, 2025
MGM announces “The 12th International Lion Dance Championship 2025 – MGM Cup” will be held on October 4 and 5 at Barra Square of A-ma Temple. Staying true to its commitment to innovating while preserving Chinese cultural heritage, MGM has hosted...
CE to travel to Lisbon, Madrid after legislative elections; key topics on agenda
Macau Daily Times
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August 27, 2025
Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai and Consul General of the Portuguese Consulate in Macau Alexandre Leitão The Chief Executive (CE), Sam Hou Fai, will lead a delegation of local government officials and business sector representatives on an eight-day...
Sri Lanka eyes 10% GDP from tourism with casino focus
Asia Gaming Brief
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August 26, 2025
Sri Lanka’s president is betting on casinos to fuel the country’s tourism recovery, aiming to lift the industry’s contribution to 10 percent of GDP as the island nation seeks to rebuild its economy after the devastating financial collapse of 2022...
Community puppet theatre tour brings Macau’s stories to life
The Macau Post Daily
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The Funny Old Tree Theatre is presenting the 6th edition of its community puppet theatre project “Gugumelo Travels Around Ha Van” until tomorrow, offering free shows for children and families across Macau, according to a recent statement from the...
Macau’s visitor volume up 14.5pct y-o-y in July, with seven-month tally now 22.68mln
GGRAsia
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August 22, 2025
July visitor arrivals rose 14.5 percent year-on-year in Macau, to nearly 3.46 million. Tourists from the Chinese mainland accounted for 74.1 percent of the total, or just over 2.56-million arrivals. In the first seven months of 2025, Macau...
Macau logs 22.6 million visitors in Jan-July, up 14.9 pct
The Macau Post Daily
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Macau recorded 22.67 million visitor arrivals in the first seven months of the year, a year-on-year growth of 14.9 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced today. Same-day visitors (13.16 million) and overnight visitors (9.51...
JP Morgan: Macau on a winning streak, could blow past GGR expectations for August
iGB
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August 25, 2025
Home > Finance > JP Morgan: Macau on a winning streak, could blow past GGR expectations for August 25th August 2025 | By Marjorie Preston Analysts from investment bank JP Morgan predict Macau gross gaming revenue could reach MOP22.5 billion this...