After the success of the Spring Festival holiday, the relevant departments and industries of Macao's tourism exhibition industry have high hopes for the tourism exhibition market in 2023 and are fully prepared for the market recovery. Yu Yusheng, acting chairman of the Trade and Investment Promotion Bureau of the Government of the Macao Special Administrative Region, said that it was one of the key deployment of this year to attract exhibition activities to settle in Macao. It was expected that 700 to 1000 exhibition activities would be held this year, an increase of at least 40% over the same period last year. The CCPIT said that in February, it assisted a number of large-scale enterprise meetings to be held in Macao, adding new impetus to the diversified economic development. In the future, it will continue to deepen cooperation with Hengqin, Guangdong, Australia and Shenzhen Cooperation Zone, better connect the site resources and policy advantages of the two places, strive for influential and professional exhibition projects to be held in the way of "one exhibition and two places", promote trade and investment attraction with the help of brand exhibition activities, extend the exhibition industry chain, and promote the development of key industries. Lu Hongjun, president of the Macao Convention and Exhibition Industry Association, said that after the Chinese New Year, he received customer inquiries from different places one after another, and more than 60 projects are currently under negotiation. With the combination of venue, supporting facilities, policy incentives and other measures, Macao's exhibition market is highly competitive. The Tourism Administration of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government said that the Tourism Administration continued to communicate with the industry to ensure smooth arrangements, and planned to organize publicity and promotion projects with the industry in major tourist sources in the mainland, to build a bridge for communication between the two industries, to promote the recovery of group tourism, and to strengthen supervision and inspection, to ensure the quality of tourism services, and to maintain the tourism image of Macao. Wu Yongwei, president of the Macao Tour Guide Promotion Association, said that tour guides are important business cards of cities. In the future, they will negotiate with the Tourism Administration and the Tourism Institute to provide more professional teachers for the industry and contribute to building "one center, one platform and one base" for Macao. Macao public opinion believes that with the full resumption of customs clearance between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao and the resumption of group tours between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, the number of mainland and Hong Kong tourists visiting Macao is expected to increase in an orderly manner, and the next step will be a good opportunity to vigorously develop international tourist sources. (Xinhua News Agency)