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Macao Feb visitor arrivals in package tours up 16.3%

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-04-16 11:29
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MACAO - Macao's visitor arrivals in package tours increased by 16.3 percent year-on-year to 464,370 in February 2010, according to the figures released on Thursday by the city's Statistics and Census Bureau.

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The figure showed that visitor arrivals in package tours in February from China's mainland (336,551), Taiwan (21,456) and Hong Kong rose by 9.4 percent, 47.2 percent and 5.4 percent year-on-year respectively. Those from Japan (21,944) were up 17.3 percent.

Meanwhile, the number of local residents traveling outbound in package tours soared by 63.4 percent year-on-year to 20,198 on account of the Lunar New Year that fell in February. The Chinese mainland and Hong Kong were the most popular tour itineraries, according to the Bureau.
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