A group of close to 400 people, including tourism officials, travel agencies chiefs, media and academics from all over Mainland China are in town for a four-day visit to “Experience Macau.” Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) and China Travel Service (CTS) jointly organize the visit. This is the forth initiative of its kind since 2000. The visit intends to allow the group from Mainland China - the main visitor-generating market to Macau – to experience the diverse characteristics of touring in Macau, through a variety of themed-tours and interactive programs. The group arrived in Macau on Tuesday and departs this Friday. Coming from 90 cities of the country's 31 provinces and autonomous regions in Mainland China the group includes official leaders of tourism departments, representatives of tourist sectors, primary newspapers and TV media along with well-known journalists, scholars and professors from higher education institutes, literary and artistic associations, among others. The program of the visit includes touring The Historic Center of Macau, new tourism infrastructures, as well as activities such as Go Karting. The participants will also have the chance to do a tour around sites were famous movies were shooted and participate in a game titled “Impossible Mission” held around the city center. This is the forth time that MGTO and CTS jointly organize a mega familiarization visit from the Mainland to Macau. The previous occasions took place in 2000, 2003 and 2007. The size of the group and the number of cities represented has increased by each edition.
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