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Government approves extension of horse race concession
The Government has approved an extension of the city’s horse racing concession for a period of 24 years and six months, said today the Secretary for Economy and Finance, Mr Leong Vai Tac.
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Applications for the Cultural Affairs Bureau “Academic Research Grant” open in March
The applications for the “Academic Research Grant”, launched by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym), will be open from 1 March to 31 May, 2018.
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UM professor wins Journal Paper of the Year Award at ENTER 2018
Yeongbae Choe, an assistant professor of international integrated resort management from the Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau (UM), recently received the Journal Paper of the Year Award and the Best Poster Award, for his papers titled ‘Use of Social Media across the Trip Experience: An Application of Latent Transition Analysis’ and ‘Representation of Food Safety in Online Reviews’, respectively, at the ENTER 2018 Conference of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT). Dr Choe is the only person to have received two awards at this year’s conference.
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Results of retail sales survey for 4th quarter of 2017
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that value of retail sales for the fourth quarter of 2017 increased by 16.2% year-on-year to MOP19.08 billion and rose by 18.3% as compared with the revised figure (MOP16.12 billion) in the third quarter of 2017. Watches, Clocks & Jewellery accounted for 21.5% of the total value of retail sales, followed by Goods in Department Stores (15.0%), Adults’ Clothing (14.5%), Leather Goods (11.9%) and Goods in Supermarkets (5.7%).
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GGCT lowers the Travel Alert for Bali to Level 1
Given that the situation caused by the eruption of the Agung volcano in Bali has alleviated, the Tourism Crisis Management Office (GGCT) lowered the Travel Alert to Level 1.
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Book collection for the “Book Exchange” activity starts on 1 March
As part of the “2018 Macao Library Week”, the Macao Public Library of the Cultural Affairs Bureau will launch the “Book Exchange” activity from Thursday, 1 March, in order to promote reading habits as well as to encourage residents who love reading to make friends through books and share their resources. The book collection period will last from 1 March to 8 April.
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Visitor Arrivals for January 2018
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals decreased by 4.7% year-on-year to 2,741,465 in January 2018, due mainly to the timing of the Lunar New Year which fell in January in 2017 but in February this year. Compared with December 2017, visitor arrivals went down by 10.2% month-to-month. Same-day visitors (1,258,358) dropped by 16.8% year-on-year while overnight visitors (1,483,107) increased by 8.8%. The average length of stay of visitors rose by 0.2 day year-on-year to 1.3 days, with that of overnight visitors and same-day visitors staying at 2.1 days and 0.2 day respectively.
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