{"id":777030578,"date":"2025-08-20T08:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777030578"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:57:38","slug":"macaus-government-tourism-office-extends-directors-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macaus-government-tourism-office-extends-directors-term","title":{"rendered":"Macau Government Tourism Office director’s term extended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Helena Senna Fernandes has been reappointed until December 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has announced that Helena de Senna Fernandes has been reappointed as director of office until 2027. The Macau government said the Secretary for Economy and Finance had renewed Senna Fernandes\u2019 role for two years due to her \u201csuitable management skills and professional experience in performing her duties\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senna Fernandes was appointed MGTO director in 2012. Her term was set to expire on December 20\u00a0this year but will now run until December 20, 2027<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helena de Senna Fernandes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Senna Fernandes has a bachelor degree in business administration. She joined the public service in 1988 and served as promotion department head from 1994 to 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, Senna Fernandes expressed optimism for August as Macau’s hotel occupancy rate<\/a> stands at around 90 per cent. She expects a daily average of 110,000 visitor arrivals in July and August, almost a 2.2 per cent increase from 2024\u2019s average of 107,628.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MGTO has projected that annual visitor arrivals in 2025 would reach between 38 and 39 million. Macau recorded nearly 23 million visitors in the first seven months of 2025, with 3.45 million arrivals<\/a> in July. Occupancy rates for the first half of this year were 89 per cent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Macau visitor numbers rise in July<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helena Senna Fernandes has been reappointed until December 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777028006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Helena de Senna Fernandes has been reappointed as Director of the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) until December 2027, signaling continuity in the region's tourism leadership. Her reappointment comes amidst optimistic projections for Macau's visitor arrivals and hotel occupancy rates for 2025, which are crucial indicators for the integrated resort sector.","focusai_entities":"Helena de Senna Fernandes, Macau Government Tourism Office, MGTO, Macau government, Secretary for Economy and Finance","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR Projections?","query":"How might the continuity in MGTO leadership and the projected visitor arrival increases influence the GGR forecasts for Macau's integrated resorts in 2025 and beyond?"},{"label":"Policy Continuity Implications?","query":"What are the specific implications of Helena de Senna Fernandes' reappointment for the Macau government's tourism diversification strategy and its alignment with the gaming concessionaires' non-gaming investment commitments?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[257,21157],"class_list":["post-777030578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau","tag-mgto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777030578","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777030578"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777030578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777030599,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777030578\/revisions\/777030599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777028006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777030578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777030578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777030578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}