Taxing times

29 May 2019 By Katrina Hamlin Follow @KatrinaHamlin

Millions of Chinese visitors are swarming the tiny territory across a new bridge. The $38 bln gaming hub doesn’t seem to know what to do with them, and is mulling a tourist tax to reduce congestion. The city’s Nevada-inspired economic diversification strategy is due a rethink.

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Macau is mulling a tourist tax to help control the flow of visitors to the territory, Macao Government Tourist Office Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said at a conference on May 22.

Visitor arrivals to Macau increased 21% in the first quarter of 2019 compared with a year earlier, according to data from the MGTO. The influx was driven by a 50% increase in entries via land borders after the opening of a new bridge connecting Macau with Hong Kong and Mainland China. Most visitors were day trippers, the data shows.

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