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Macao Reports Robust Tourism Business

Tourist arrivals in Macao by group soared a year-on-year 35.1 percent in the first 11 months of 2002,led by more visitors from China's inland.

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Tourist arrivals in Macao by group soared a year-on-year 35.1 percent in the first 11 months of 2002,led by more visitors from China's inland.

The Statistics and Census Services posted Sunday that the special administrative region (SAR) received 1.92 million group tourists from January to November, including November's 186,000.

An upgraded tourism image of Macao -- paired with China's interior loosening restrictions on Macao-bound tours, mainly by allowing many more travel agencies to operate such tours -- was a boon to the SAR's tourism business, local tourism authorities have noted.

Group tourists from the country's inland alone reached 132,400 in November, making it the largest tourist source for Macao.

As a result, hotels posted an occupancy rate of as much as 73.6percent that month, up 10.2 percentage points from a year earlier,with three-star hotels recording the best performance.

On the other hand, the number of Macao residents traveling overseas by group declined 17.7 percent to 14,300, out of a population of roughly 450,000. China's inland remained the most popular destination for them, seeing the influx of 77.3 percent of all the Macao tourists.

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