{"id":7397,"date":"2020-06-18T21:01:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=7397"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:19:56","slug":"macau-local-tourism-project-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-local-tourism-project-begins","title":{"rendered":"Macau: local tourism project begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over 3,100 people sign up in the first day to experience local attractions and hospitality in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- The <strong><em>Macao Government Tourism Office<\/em><\/strong> (MGTO) has begun to receive applications for its local tourism project \u201cMacao Ready Go!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a way to encourage residents to enjoy local attractions, temples and hospitality activities usually aimed at tourists, the city&#8217;s authorities are offering participants a subsidy of 280 patacas per tour, with a maximum subsidy of 560 patacas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project\u2019s goal is to activate the local hospitality industry, which  continues to be severely hit by the Covid-19 lockdown and travel restrictions, by subsidising local tourism. It includes visits to IRs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MGTO said in a recent press release: \u201cThe Macao Special Administrative Region Government hopes that the project \u201cMacao Ready Go! Local Tours\u201d can lead to progressive resumption of tourism activities in Macao in parallel with the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-hong-kong\">city\u2019s scheme for economic recovery<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents have a choice of 15 itineraries in two categories: community based-tours and leisure tours. The latter mainly visit local integrated resorts (IR), although tours take place in non-gambling areas. Wynn palace, MGM Cotai, SJM\u2019s Grand Lisboa and Sand\u2019s China Venetian Macao complex all feature on itineraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In only one day 3,135 Macau residents signed up to take part with 60 per cent opting for leisure tours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 3,100 people sign up in the first day to experience local attractions and hospitality in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has launched \"Macao Ready Go!\", a local tourism project offering subsidies to residents to visit attractions and integrated resorts (IRs) in non-gambling areas. This initiative aims to stimulate the local hospitality industry, severely impacted by COVID-19, and support the city's economic recovery. Over 3,100 residents registered on the first day, with 60% opting for leisure tours visiting IRs like Wynn Palace, MGM Cotai, SJM's Grand Lisboa, and Sands China's Venetian Macao.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, Wynn Palace, MGM Cotai, SJM, Grand Lisboa, Sands China, Venetian Macao","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on IR Non-Gaming GGR?","query":"What is the projected impact of the 'Macao Ready Go!' program on the non-gaming Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and overall visitation metrics for the participating integrated resorts in Macau over the next two fiscal quarters?"},{"label":"Government Stimulus Efficacy?","query":"How does the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) plan to measure the efficacy of this local tourism subsidy program in achieving its stated goals of hospitality industry activation and broader economic recovery, beyond initial sign-up rates?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[257,9905],"class_list":["post-7397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau","tag-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397","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=7397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777009196,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions\/777009196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}