–Happy New Year’s–
Macau celebrated the coming of the new year all throughout the city, with performances and shows and the appearance of local celebrities at the Macau Fisherman’s Wharf and the Sai Vai Lakes. Amongst the new year’s activities, the Grand Lisboa started its celebrations at 11pm and at midnight had its first countdown into [...]

Review of the Cotai Strip’s Venetian Macao

The Venetian Macao on Macau’s Cotai Strip outshines any competition in its trailblazing pace…as the largest most spectacular Integrated Resort in the world. My Turbojet dash across the South China Sea brought along exciting Chinese chatter and fervent debate on what’s really happening on the other side of the Pearl River delta. While [...]

New casinos add to booming gaming revenue

Macao’s casino industry will likely see record gross revenues of 83 billion patacas (10 billion U.S. dollars) in 2007, an increase of 46.5 percent over last year, The Macao Post Daily reported on Wednesday.
The casinos’ gross receipts were expected to reach 8.1 billion patacas (1.03 billion U.S. dollars) in December, the daily quoted a senior [...]

Macau visitor volume keeps rising

Macau continues to receive record numbers of visitors, as the number of visitor arrivals reached 2,458,120 in November 2007, representing a year-on-year increase of 26.1%. Visitors from Mainland China and Hong Kong rose by 31.2% and 10.3% respectively, with those from Southeast Asia soared by 85.4%. Meanwhile, same-day visitors accounted for 52.1% of the total [...]

The Police concert at Venetian Macao

Stuff like this is great for The Venetian, Cotai Strip tourism, Macau, and most importantly, its tourists. They may be balding and grey, but they still rock…“The Venetian Macau Resort Hotel and Live Nation Global Touring have confirmed that The Police will perform at The Venetian Arena in Macao, on 7th February 2008.
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