Governments to discuss re-issuing individual travel visas in order to allow mainlanders to visit Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng<\/strong><\/em> said local government will negotiate with the Chinese central government to start re-issuing individual travel visas in order to allow mainlanders to visit Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ho Iat Seng spoke to the Legislative Assembly during his 2020 Policy Address and said: “We will also negotiate with the Guangdong province for the requirements for the issue of tourism visas to residents for travel to Macau in the province to be eased.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ho, discussions will also be had about allowing tour groups from the mainland to travel to the SAR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ho also explained that the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) will be transferred from the Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture to the responsibility of the Secretary for Economy and Finance, in order to \u201cbetter boost the development of the tourism sector\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe gambling and tourism sector is itself as a pillar industry, a competitive industry and also a dominant industry, driving the development of other sectors, providing economic foundations that guarantee the maintenance, in Macau, of a reduced tax burden and its status as a free business center,\u201d Ho said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He added that the government is \u201caware that maintaining a healthy and stable development of the gambling and tourism sector will continue, for a certain period of time, to be the basis and premise of the continued stability of the Macau economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, he admitted an \u201cexcessive and prolonged dependence of the gambling and tourism sector\u201d \u201cif the monolith nature of the local industrial structure remains unchanged, it will hinder the sustainable development of Macau\u2019s economy. In the face of this epidemic crisis, the problems and risks associated with the economic structure of Macau were once again revealed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n He concluded: \u201cWe must, therefore, looking to the future, foster the impetus for the adequate and diversified development of our economy and the construction of a more diversified industrial structure, thus providing solid foundations for the sustainable and long-term development of the Macau SAR. This is the consensus shared, and consolidated, by the whole of society in the face of this epidemic crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S<\/em><\/strong><\/a>uspended in January of this year, individual visas allow mainland Chinese<\/em><\/a> <\/strong><\/em>living in eligible areas of the country to apply for a single-use travel permit to visit Macau or Hong Kong as independent travellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Governments to discuss re-issuing individual travel visas in order to allow mainlanders to visit Macau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng announced plans to negotiate with the Chinese central government and Guangdong province for the re-issuance of individual travel visas and the resumption of tour groups from mainland China. This initiative aims to revitalize Macau's pillar gambling and tourism sector, which has been significantly impacted by recent travel restrictions. Concurrently, the Macau Government Tourism Office will be transferred to the Secretary for Economy and Finance to enhance tourism development, while acknowledging the long-term need for economic diversification.","focusai_entities":"Ho Iat Seng, Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Legislative Assembly","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Guangdong, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.75), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Visa Re-issuance Timeline","query":"What is the projected timeline for the re-issuance of individual travel visas and the resumption of tour groups, and what specific metrics will the central government use to determine approval?"},{"label":"Economic Diversification Strategy","query":"Beyond the immediate tourism recovery, what concrete policy initiatives and investment frameworks will Macau implement to achieve its stated goal of economic diversification and reduce reliance on the gaming sector?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,161,16338,156,158],"tags":[7299,512,257,337],"class_list":["post-5753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-coronavirus","tag-gaming","tag-macau","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5753"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008724,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions\/777008724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}