Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that a total of 15,062 wholesale & retail establishments, market stalls and fixed stalls on the street were operating in 2017, an increase of 596 year-on-year. Number of persons engaged rose by 2.7% to 69,684, with employees accounting for 83.5% of the total. Receipts of Wholesale & Retail Trade amounted to MOP 122.07 billion in 2017, up by 10.7% year-on-year. Expenditure grew by 8.6% to MOP 108.93 billion, of which Operating Expenses, Compensation of Employees and Purchase of Goods & Commission Paid recorded respective increases of 10.2%, 9.7% and 8.1%. Gross Surplus totalled MOP 11.75 billion, up by 24.0% year-on-year. Gross Value Added that measures the sectoral contribution to the economy went up by 16.8% to MOP 22.17 billion. Meanwhile, Gross Fixed Capital Formation fell by 24.5% year-on-year to MOP 1.94 billion, owing to a decrease in major refurbishments of retail establishments.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors on package tours decreased by 8.9% year-on-year to 687,000 in September 2018 due to the impact of the typhoon, and registered a drop of 12.1% month-to-month. Package tour visitors from Mainland China (526,000) went down by 16.6% year-on-year, while those from the Republic of Korea (52,000) and Taiwan (60,000) surged by 58.8% and 64.0% respectively. In the first three quarters of 2018, visitors on package tours totalled 6,495,000, up by 8.2% year-on-year.
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