Monday, September 2, 2024
The Macao Authorities Tourism Workplace (MGTO) has as soon as once more led a delegation of Macao’s journey business representatives to take part within the Holiyaay! Journey Truthful 2024 in Surabaya, Indonesia. At this occasion, MGTO unveiled a grand Macao Pavilion, designed to focus on Macao as a prime vacation spot with a wide selection of “tourism +” experiences, aimed toward fascinating Indonesian and Southeast Asian vacationers, as a part of its ongoing worldwide advertising and marketing efforts.
Partaking Southeast Asian Guests
The Indonesian Journey Brokers Affiliation (ASINTDO) organizes main journey gala’s in February and August every year, in each Jakarta, West Java Province, and Surabaya, East Java Province. These gala’s are Indonesia’s largest shopper journey occasions, attracting quite a few tourism operators and vacationers alike.
Showcasing “Tourism +” with Trade Collaboration
MGTO led a delegation comprising Macao’s built-in resort enterprises and an airline to the journey honest, the place they arrange a 50-square-meter Macao Pavilion. This vibrant sales space featured an attention-grabbing design, interactive video games, and multimedia shows, all showcasing Macao’s World Heritage websites, occasions, gastronomy, and leisure choices.
The Macao Pavilion included a vacationer info counter and a commerce networking zone, offering a platform for Macao business delegates to attach with exhibitors and journey professionals from Indonesia. These interactions allowed either side to change updates on tourism assets, merchandise, and business traits in Macao and Indonesia. Moreover, MGTO partnered with 5 native journey companies to launch distinctive Macao tourism merchandise from mid-August to mid-November, aiming to encourage Indonesian vacationers to go to Macao throughout festive holidays, significantly on this 12 months of double celebrations.
Energizing Curiosity in Macao with Vacation spot Displays
MGTO hosted three interactive vacation spot displays on the journey honest, providing native tourism operators and the general public a possibility to study extra in regards to the newest journey ideas for Macao. These classes attracted round 70 native business individuals and included prize-giving video games to interact the viewers and promote the colourful experiences of “tourism +” in Macao.
Robust Development in Indonesian Customer Numbers
Macao welcomed over 100,000 Indonesian guests (105,523) between January and July 2024, reaching 91.1% of the customer numbers from the identical interval in 2019, and marking a forty five.0% enhance in comparison with 2023. Indonesia now ranks as Macao’s third-largest worldwide customer market. The launch of direct air providers between Jakarta and Macao final November has additional strengthened this connection, with three direct flights at the moment working weekly, growing to 5 weekly in September.
MGTO stays dedicated to tapping into the potential of Indonesian and Southeast Asian customer markets via numerous promotional initiatives. Along with collaborating within the NATAS Journey 2024 in Singapore and the MATTA Journey Truthful in Malaysia, the Workplace has launched particular presents in collaboration with Air Macau and journey companies in each Indonesia and Macao. MGTO additionally actively organizes familiarization visits for Indonesian delegations to expertise Macao’s newest vacationer points of interest and resort amenities. These efforts goal to encourage tourism operators from each areas to develop new merchandise tailor-made to Indonesian and Southeast Asian vacationers, finally increasing Macao’s worldwide customer markets.
