MACAO -- Macao jazzed up for its new record high
yearly visitor arrivals of 20 million Sunday, as the Portuguese folk dance and
the Chinese dragon and lion dance were presented at the city's six major tourism
spots.
The yearly visitor arrivals had long been under 10 million prior to the
region's return to the motherland in 1999, according to a press release issued
by the Government Tourism Office.
The top 10 tourism markets of the region this year were the Chinese mainland,
Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, the United
States, Singapore and Thailand, figures from the Office showed.
The Chinese mainland occupied some 54 percent of the total visitor arrivals
so far this year, the figures showed.
The special administrative region has a population of 508,000 and an area of
28.2 square km.
