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"How to attract foreign tourists?" (Charter flights)

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may24 A Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) official has expressed confidence the SAR will achieve i ts target of two million foreign visitors from outside Greater China by the end of the year. That’s about two thirds of the number of foreign visitors welcomed in pre-pandemic 2019. “So far, we are fulfilling our expectations,” the bureau’s deputy director Cheng Wai Tong told  local media , when asked how the MGTO was progressing earlier this week. “We trust that we will fulfil the whole-year goal of two million [international visitors].” In the first quarter of this year, Macao welcomed almost 584,000 international visitors, or nearly 70 percent of the comparable figure from 2019. https://macaonews.org/news/business/macau-foreign-visitors-target-2024-macao/ may24 A Citigroup survey of Macau casino premium mass tables, conducted on Friday (May 3), the third of  five days of May holidays  on the Chinese mainland, indicated a 144 percent higher amount in total wager, and 119 percent m