China News Service, Chongqing, December 1 (Reporter Liu Xianglin) The Director of the Macau Government Tourism Bureau Wen Qihua held a press conference in Chongqing on the 1st, saying that in the coming week, Macau-related tourism agencies will launch in Chongqing with a total value of more than 100 million yuan. The tourism discounts of Chongqing attract tourists from Chongqing to travel to Australia to check in.

　　In order to promote exchanges and cooperation between Macao and the Mainland, and consolidate the bridge for cultural, tourism, and commerce development during the normalization of the epidemic, the Macao SAR Government Tourism Office and the International Trade Promotion Bureau, together with relevant Macao tourism associations, enterprises, etc., organized a delegation to Chongqing to promote Macao’s tourism, commerce, culture and cuisine During the period, the 2021 "Chongqing Macau Week" event will be held.

　　Wen Qihua stated that since the resumption of visas for mainland residents to travel to Macau in September 2020, the Macau SAR government has actively promoted tourism through multiple online and offline channels to promote Macau’s image of health, safety and travel to the mainland market and launch tourism. Consumption discounts, while launching "Macao Week" promotion activities.

Although there was an epidemic in Macau in 2021, with the stabilization of the epidemic and the effect of the "Macao Week" publicity activities, the number of mainland visitors to Macau has rebounded significantly.

　　The “Chongqing Macau Week” large-scale road exhibition in Chongqing will showcase the characteristic elements of Macau’s tourism, commerce, culture, cultural creation, sports and entertainment. The three major areas of fantasy block, magic park, and vitality market will open up the audience Macau trip.

In the next week, the organizer will also hold "Macao Tourism Promotion Conference", "Chongqing Macao and Portuguese-speaking Countries Exhibition Trade and Investment Promotion Conference", "Chongqing Macao Week-Discover Macau" food promotion activities in Chongqing.

During the event, participating units prepared travel discounts worth more than RMB 100 million, covering air tickets, hotel accommodation, catering and tourism products, which will be sold on-site or online platforms.

　　According to reports, Chongqing and Macau are mutually important tourist destinations and source of tourists, especially the high degree of interdependence of tourism.

Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Chongqing and Macao have overcome the difficulties and jointly prepared for the recovery of cross-border tourism between the two places.

In the next step, the two sides will expand the two-way inbound and outbound tourism market and carry out multi-level exchanges and cooperation.

　　Zhang Yaqian, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the Chongqing Municipal Government, said that in recent years, Chongqing and Macao have had close personnel exchanges, especially in the fields of commerce, culture and tourism, transportation, environmental protection, and youth exchanges, and the cooperation prospects are broad.

Chongqing will further promote the creation of a convenient environment for Macao residents to live, work and study in Chongqing, strengthen cooperation in the cultural, tourism, exhibition, and commerce industry, link Hong Kong and Macau to help the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing dual-city economic circle, strengthen cooperation in science and technology, medical care and transportation, and support the implementation of the "Chongqing" "Australia Health Cooperation Memorandum" promotes the development of Chongqing-Australia cooperation to a deeper level, higher quality, and more effective development.

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