Macau government has now stated a need to support the recovery of the tourism industry<\/strong><\/em><\/a> through measures such as tax reduction and economic support.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThat is according to the Director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, who has said that an MGTO study found that \u201cregulating the increase in visitor numbers by levying a tourist tax may not be the most effective measure applicable to Macau.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The study also noted that many popular tourist cities around the world had opted instead to \u201cpromote the dispersal of visitors within the city and beyond\u201d and focus on \u201cimproving urban infrastructure and facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Due to the negative impact the pandemic has had on the city and its gaming and tourism industries, the tax has been abandoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2471,"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 has formally abandoned plans for a tourist tax, citing the severe pandemic-induced downturn in its gaming and tourism sectors. This decision reflects a strategic pivot towards economic recovery, with authorities prioritizing tax reductions and support measures over additional levies, aligning with findings from the Macao Government Tourism Office that advocate for infrastructure improvements and visitor dispersal as more effective growth drivers for the jurisdiction.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR Recovery?","query":"What is the projected quantitative impact of foregoing a tourist tax on Macau's GGR recovery trajectory and visitor volume growth for the next fiscal year?"},{"label":"Alternative Revenue Streams?","query":"Given the abandonment of a tourist tax, what alternative fiscal measures or economic diversification strategies is the Macau government exploring to bolster public revenue and support urban infrastructure development?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,157,16338],"tags":[257,2895],"class_list":["post-6318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318","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=6318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6330,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions\/6330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}