Starting from 3 p.m. today (23 July), processing of applications has resumed for the local tour entitled “Helicopter Ride Experience” under the umbrella of “Macao Ready Go! Local Tours”. Applications are welcomed during the period from 3 p.m. on Thursday (23 July) to 6 p.m. on Sunday (26 July). Applicants are required to choose the tour dates upon application.
The quotas for the local tour “Helicopter Ride Experience” has increased from 700 to a total of 1,584, besides an increment of available tour dates which now include Wednesdays and Thursdays besides Fridays and weekends. The tour period starts from 31 July until 31 August.
Electronic lots for the tour “Helicopter Ride Experience” will be cast at 2:30 p.m. next Monday (27 July) at Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) and witnessed by MGTO officials.
All applicants will enter the lots directly. In accord with the order of the lots’ results, applicants will be assigned their respective order of priority to sign up for the tour on the tour dates preselected upon application. If quotas are full on their selected tour dates, applicants who are assigned their sequence numbers by the lots can opt for other tour dates, but they cannot amend their prior preference of tour dates unless the quotas are full respectively.
The travel agencies concerned will notify applicants of the lots’ results, confirm their dates of participation and arrange for payments in respective order.
Each applicant who is assigned a sequence number by the lots will be eligible for two quotas for joining the above tour. Due to limited quotas for the tour “Helicopter Ride Experience”, applicants who are assigned sequence numbers by the lots but unable to join the tour within the quotas will be put on the waiting list to queue for any quotas left. If applicants with sequence numbers give up joining the tour, they will not be included in the waiting list again.