Macao holds over 340 meetings, conferences in Q1

Source: Xinhua| 2017-05-27 17:51:23|Editor: ying
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MACAO, May 27 (Xinhua) -- China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) witnessed a significant increase in its conference industry in the first quarter of 2017, the SAR's statistics department said Saturday.

Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that a total of 366 events were held in the first quarter of 2017, consisting of 344 meetings and conferences, seven exhibitions and 15 incentives, with the total number of participants and attendees reaching 222,000.

The number of meetings and conferences increased by 50 year-on-year, with number of participants rising by 111.9 percent to 54,000.

Those meetings and conferences with 200 participants or more went up by 16 to 54.

Meanwhile, meetings and conferences of four hours or more increased by 66 year-on-year to 247.

The overall average duration of the meetings and conferences was 1.7 days, up by 0.3 day.

The DSEC data showed that the seven exhibitions held in the first quarter were organized by non-government organizations, up by three year-on-year.

The average duration of the exhibitions was 3.0 days, up by 0.2 day year-on-year, and total floor area used rose by 39.1 percent to 14,000 square meters.

Furthermore, the number of incentives went up by three year-on-year to 15, drawing 4,432 participants, up by 135.9 percent.

The average duration of the events was 3.3 days and total floor area used was 16,000 square meters.

Information collected from 160 interviewed exhibitors in the first quarter indicated that 97.7 percent of their receipts were generated from sales of products, while rental paid for exhibition booths accounted for 65.2 percent of their expenditure.

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