Some details of the official agenda that the Chief Executive, Ho Iat Seng, will follow during his trip to Portugal, which will take place next week, between April 16 and 24, are already known. According to the weekly newspaper Plataforma, which had access to the travel document of Ho Iat Seng and his entourage of 50 businessmen, visits will be organized to Portuguese companies in the pharmaceutical and food industries, as well as actions to promote Macau tourism in Portugal. The trip is being made with the support of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute and will take place in the Portuguese capital and Porto.
The delegation arrives on the 17th, meeting with the Investment and Foreign Trade Agency of Portugal (AICEP) and with Sino-Portuguese business associations, including the Luso-Chinese Association of Traders and Industrialists and the Portugal-China Chamber of Commerce Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CCPC-SME). On the 18th a visit is scheduled to Quinta da Marmeleira, in Alenquer, a wine production farm owned by Wu Zhiwei, a Macau businessman. On that day, Ho Iat Seng will visit the private group Luz Saúde, where the Chinese group Fosun is a major shareholder through the insurance company Fidelidade.
Also on the 18th Ho Iat Seng is scheduled to visit the Sovena Group, an agro-industrial company, and have a dinner with the Portuguese-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Portugal-China Young Entrepreneurs Association. On the next day, the delegation will visit Campo Maior and the Delta Cafés factory.
Tourism Promotion
On the afternoon of April 19, the delegation will attend the opening ceremony of a tourism promotion event organized by the Portuguese Tourism Board (DST), at Praça do Comércio, in Lisbon. The initiative includes a light and image show about Macau on the façades of Praça do Comércio, entitled “Feel Macau Without Limits – Promoting Macau in Lisbon,” with four performances per night, between April 15 and 22.
The aim, according to DST, is “to attract Portuguese and European visitors to Macau, as part of efforts to further expand international visitor markets and promote the recovery of tourism and the economy.”
A “familiarization visit to tourism projects in Portugal” will also be made with a delegation of Macau tour operators. Also on 19 April the MGTO takes part in the Session on Economic, Trade and Tourism Promotion in Lisbon, organised by IPIM, which will serve to “present the advantages of Macau tourism to the tourism authorities,” so that “businesspeople from both sides communicate and negotiate,” in order to broaden “business opportunities for tourism cooperation between Macau and Portugal.
On April 21st a press conference promoted by the Global Tourism Economy Forum and the World Tourism Organization (WTO) will take place in Lisbon where it will be announced the “increase in the quality of cooperation” between the two entities, being signed “a memorandum of cooperation between the WTO and the Global Tourism Economy Research Center, the organizing entity of the Global Tourism Economy Forum”.
Besides the visits to the pharmaceutical company Hovione and the Champalimaud Foundation, scheduled for the 20th, the delegation will also be present at the headquarters of Nautical Portugal, a maritime economy project in Cascais.
The following day the delegation will leave for Porto, visiting the pharmaceutical company BIAL, Quinta da Boeira and Corticeira Amorim. The departure from Portugal will take place from Porto on the 23rd, with arrival in Macau scheduled for the 24th.
Source: HojeMacau