Tourism revenues should be 4-5% higher than 2019
Lusa - Portugal - 27/09/2022
Portugal’s secretary of state for tourism believes that tourism revenues will grow by four to five percent this year, compared to 2019, given the “very vigorous” recovery of the sector, although the “highly deteriorated” balance sheets of…
Macau received almost 63,000 visitors over the five days of the Lunar New Year
Hoje Macau - 17/02/2021
In the first five days of the Lunar New Year, the number of visitors exceeded 62 thousand, which still represents a decrease of 71.6 percent compared to last year.
Between Thursday of last week and Monday, Macau received 62,984 visitors, which is equivalent to an annual…
André Jordan: “I consider China's growth to be very positive for the world”
Plataforma - Macau - 02/11/2020
Considered by many as “the father of Portuguese tourism”, André Jordan needs no introduction. At the age of 87, 50 of whom linked to the sector, the visonary entrepreneur talked to PLATAFORMA about almost everything. The creator of the luxurious Portuguese enterprises…
World tourism with dramatic 70% drop between January and August
TSF - Portugal - 27/10/2020
Experts anticipate a reversal of the downward trend in tourism “only in 2022”.
Arrivals of international tourists fell 70% worldwide in the first eight months of 2020 compared to the previous year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, announced the World Tourism Organization…
Thailand welcomes first tourists since March
AFP - International - 22/10/2020
Thailand has welcomed its first group of tourists in seven months, as part of an experiment aimed at testing if a wider opening is possible as the coronavirus cripples the kingdom’s economy.
A planeload of 39 Chinese tourists flew into Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi…
Cruise industry seeks to stay afloat in a pandemic-scarred world
Shanghai Daily - China - 20/10/2020
Many cruise operators are planning a gradual return to sailing, with a watchful eye on the China market and new global outbreaks of Covid-19.
Domestic tourism in China is showing a strong recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, but its spill-over effect on the cruise…
China unveils top 100 happiest domestic tourist attractions
Xinhua - China - 23/04/2020
The China Tourist Attractions Association and a research institution under the OCT Group, a leading theme park developer and operator in the country, jointly released a happiness index for tourist attractions on Monday.
The Palace Museum in Beijing ranked first among the top…
