-
-
- s
- s
Principal Indicators
MICE Events (No.)
No. of Participants and %
Attendees (’000) Average Duration (day) Meetings & Conferences (No.)
No. of Participants (’000) % %
Average Duration (day) Of which: 4 hours or more
No. of Participants (’000) % %
Average Duration (day) Exhibitions (No.)
No. of Attendees (’000) % %
Average Duration (day) Incentives (No.)
No. of Participants (’000) % %
Average Duration (day) Meetings and Participants by Size of Meeting & Conference
Meetings & Conferences
•
Total
10 - 49 participants
≧ 200
Alameda Dr. Carlos d' Assumpção No. 411-417, Dynasty Plaza, 17th floor, Macao Tel: (853) 8399 5311 Fax: (853) 2830 7825 E-mail: info@dsec.gov.mo Official Statistics. Reproduction of these data is allowed provided the source is quoted.
20 4 834 40.9
-55.2 2
Current Quarter
38 129 9
100 - 199 45 -2 5 695
Number of Meeting Participants by Duration
12.9 73
-46.5 157
-0.8 1.4
1.9 10 299 3.0
- 1
6.0 2
-80.1
241 21
- -52.6
Analysed by size of event, there were 230 meetings & conferences with less than 100 participants in the second quarter, an increase of 29 year- on-year, with number of participants rising by 26.6% to 8,868. Number of meetings & conferences with 200 participants or more grew by 2 to 70;
however, participants of these meetings & conferences plunged by 55.2% to 38,000.
43
1 0.1
2.2
Current Quarter 345 50 - 99
4 034
Number of exhibitions went up by 1 year-on-year, whereas number of attendees decreased by 1.8%. In the first half year of 2019, number of exhibitions increased by 1 year-on-year, with number of attendees rising by 7.5%.
685
Change (%) Participants
(No.) -46.5
353
30
Number of incentives remained at 2, yet number of participants declined notably by 80.1%. In the first half year, number of incentives rose by 1 year-on- year, while number of participants dropped by 24.9%.
- 357
1.5
-13.6
29
Number of meetings & conferences increased by 29 year-on-year; however, number of participants declined by 46.5% as a result of a 55.2% reduction in participants attending meetings & conferences with 200 participants or more. Meetings & conferences with a duration of 4 hours or more grew by 21, whereas number of participants tumbled by 52.6%. In the first half year, meetings & conferences increased by 77 year-on-year, while number of participants fell by 19.4%.
Current
Quarter Change
53
First
Half Year Change 734
-10.7 70
0#
137 -19.4 79
Types of Events
A total of 357 MICE events were held in the second quarter, including 345 meetings & conferences, 10 exhibitions and 2 incentives. Total number of participants and attendees dropped by 13.6% year-on-year to 353,000. In the first half year of 2019, there were 734 MICE events, with a total of 685,000 participants and attendees.
77
7
Meetings & Conferences (No.)
Difference 29 20
Number of Meetings by Duration
1 534
345
52 692 1.5
3.3 -0.4
504
-24.9 3.8
59 117 -25.1
1.9 -
0.8 -0.1 707
7.5
1 14
-1.8
1.5 -
Government Meeting
7.3%
Corporate Meeting
58.0%
Association Meeting
29.6%
Conference 1.7%
Exhibition 2.8%
Incentive 0.6%
Government of Macao Special Administrative Region Statistics and Census Service 統 計 暨 普 查 局
MICE STATISTICS
2
NDQUARTER 2019
No.
220 177 282 263 241
96 106
147 99 104
0 100 200 300 400 500
Q2
2018 Q3 Q4 Q1
2019 Q2
’000
91
39
65 74
43 8
9
13 11
10
0 20 40 60 80 100
Q2
2018 Q3 Q4 Q1
2019 Q2
Less than 4 hours
4 hours or more 4 hours or more Less than 4 hours
•
•
Meetings & Conferences by Duration and Floor Area Used
•
Total
< 500 m² 500 - 999
≧ 1 000 4 hours or more
< 500 m² 500 - 999
≧ 1 000 Less than 4 hours
< 500 m² 500 - 999
≧ 1 000 •
Exhibitions
•
Exhibitions by Type of Organiser
• Total
Government Organised by Non-Government Organisations
< 20 000 attendees
≧ 20 000
nd
9
345
47
42 97
426
504 179
241 245
102 508
38
Current Quarter
14
56 74
22 28
66
Current Quarter First
Half Year No. of Attendees
(’000)
26 42 42
Number of Exhibitions and Attendees by Quarter
47 27
Total floor area used for meetings & conferences in the first half year of 2019 declined by 53.0% year-on-year to 492,000 m ²; meetings &
conferences occupying a floor area of 1,000 m ² or more totalled 97 (-12), and the total floor area used (328,000 m²) dropped remarkably by 64.1%.
Total floor area used for meetings & conferences reduced by 53.8% year-on-year to 212,000 m ² in the second quarter, of which 179,000 m²(84.6% of total) was occupied by those with a duration of 4 hours or more.
Number of meetings & conferences with a floor area of less than 500 m²increased by 31 year-on-year to 245; the total floor area used amounted to 47,000 m², up by 23.8%.
There were 42 meetings & conferences occupying a floor area of 1,000 m²or more, a decrease of 13 year-on-year; the total floor area used tumbled by 67.5% to 127,000 m².
First Half Year
490
448 87 72
30
Current Quarter
31
10 163
16
203
10 238
5
First Half Year
4 Exhibitions
(No.)
10
Total Floor Area Used (’000 m² )
299
5
534 78
95 69 127
50 65 492 First Half Year
328 In the first half year of 2019, there were 707 meetings & conferences, a growth of 77 year-on-year; however, number of participants dropped by 19.4% to 137,000. Meetings & conferences of 4 hours or more totalled 504, an increase of 59, while number of participants fell by 25.1% to 117,000.
Meetings & Conferences by Duration and Size
162 58
42 345 Current Quarter
37 104
264
19 120
16 10
1 2 35
20 109
83
Among the 10 exhibitions held in the second quarter of 2019, 7 of them were previously held in the same quarter last year. Attendees added up to 299,000 and the total floor area used was 78,000 m², down by 1.8%
and 3.3% respectively year-on-year. The average duration of the exhibitions shortened by 0.8 day to 3.0 days.
Exhibitions organised by non-government organisations increased by 2 year-on-year to 9, with number of attendees rising by 2.4% to 264,000.
Meanwhile, exhibitions organised by the government went down from 2 in the second quarter of 2018 to 1, and number of attendees totalled 35,000, a decrease of 24.6%.
17
Organised by
First Half Year
212
6 Meetings &
Conferences (No.)
Total Floor Area Used (’000 m² )
The 20 exhibitions in the first half year of 2019 attracted 534,000 attendees, an increase of 7.5%; the total floor area used rose by 4.5%
to 109,000 m².
Exhibitions organised by non-government organisations went up by 1 year-on-year to 18, and number of attendees increased by 8.8% to 490,000; yet, the total floor area used fell by 3.1% to 74,000 m ².
Number of exhibitions held by the government remained at 2, while number of attendees decreased by 4.8% to 44,000; the total floor area used rose by 25.4% to 35,000 m².
44 35
In terms of duration of event, there were 241 meetings & conferences of 4 hours or more in the second quarter, an increase of 21 year-on-year;
yet, number of participants declined by 52.6% to 43,000.
Meetings & conferences of less than 4 hours rose by 8 year-on-year to 104, with number of participants increasing by 24.6% to 9,609.
30 311 33
8 18
Current Quarter 707
56 48
92 109
15 24
38 49
16 15
31 30
9 17
59 53
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
No.
≧4 hours
<4 hours
96 104 2018
241 220 2019
2018 2019
10 - 49 participants 50 - 99 participants 100 - 199 participants ≧ 200 participants
9
19 22
10 10
304
613 655
235 299
0 250 500 750
0 10 20 30 40 50
Q2
2018 Q3 Q4 Q1
2019 Q2
No. ’000
Number of Attendees Number of Exhibitions
Main Items of Receipts and Expenditure of Interviewed
Exhibition Organisers Receipts and Expenditure of Interviewed Exhibition Organisers
•
No. of Exhibitions Receipts (’000 MOP) Of which:
Rental Receipts of Exhibition Booths Financial Support from Government and Other Organisations Expenditure Of which:
Production, Construction &
Decoration
Rental Paid for the Venue Accommodation, Food &
Beverages
• •
Exhibitors and Professional Visitors of Exhibitions
•
Booths
Exhibitors
Of which:
Mainland China Hong Kong Macao
Professional Visitors •
Of which:
Mainland China Hong Kong Macao
nd
1 679 4 913
12 795 2 950
2 202
57 749
6 867
Current Quarter
91 849 21 461
4 129 1 449 4 716 186
303
1 870 835
8 3 190
64 235
6 204 32 484 250 2 700
6 183 3 414
112 452 1
62 25 265 9 74 474
Total
Organised by Government
Organised by Non- Government Organisations
66 935
13 071 8 327
2 925
First Half Year Total
Organised by Government
Organised by Non- Government Organisations 9 373
4 359
In accordance with the information of the 20 exhibitions provided by the organisers in the first half year of 2019, receipts and expenditure of the exhibitions amounted to MOP 83.89 million and MOP 91.85 million respectively. The receipts were mainly yielded from rental of exhibition booths (MOP 74.83 million), whereas the expenditure was mainly incurred on production, construction & decoration (MOP 21.46 million) and publicity & public relations (MOP 16.58 million).
Booths, Exhibitors and Professional Visitors of Exhibitions Exhibitions Organised by Government Publicity & Public Relations
According to the information of the 10 exhibitions provided by the organisers in the second quarter, their receipts totalled MOP 74.47 million, which were generated primarily from rental of exhibition booths (MOP 66.94 million); their expenditure amounted to MOP 57.75 million, which was mainly incurred on production, construction &
decoration (MOP 13.07 million), rental paid for the venue (MOP 9.37 million) and publicity & public relations (MOP 8.33 million).
Receipts of the 9 exhibitions held by non-government organisations amounted to MOP 71.52 million, of which 89.8% were generated from rental of exhibition booths. These exhibitions incurred MOP 25.26 million in expenditure, which was mostly spent on production, construction & decoration (27.2% of total) and rental paid for the venue (24.5%). After deducting the expenditure as well as financial support from the government and other organisations (MOP 1.95 million) from the receipts, these exhibitions recorded net receipts of MOP 44.31 million, which represented a less desirable performance as compared to the second quarter of 2018 (MOP 53.42 million).
16 575 1 952
12 490 16 465
3 891 2 141 13 372
Structure of Expenditure for Exhibitions in First Half Year
63 2 514
1 166
Exhibitions Organised by Non-Government Organisations
No.
In the first half year of 2019, exhibitors and professional visitors totalled 2,141 and 16,000 respectively; local exhibitors and professional visitors accounted for 30.7% and 28.6%. Exhibitions held by non-government organisations registered 1,174 exhibitors and 12,000 professional visitors.
714
311
1 148 249
11 342
201 2 383
3 110
513
2 909 878
Receipts of the 18 exhibitions organised by non-government organisations totalled MOP 80.23 million. After deducting the expenditure (MOP 33.03 million) as well as financial support from the government and other organisations (MOP 3.48 million) from the receipts, these exhibitions recorded net receipts of MOP 43.73 million, a decrease was observed as compared to MOP 51.19 million in the first half year of 2018.
250
990
188 557
500 657
A total of 1,166 exhibitors participated in the exhibitions in the second quarter; most of them came from mainland China (21.4%), Hong Kong (26.7%) and Macao (21.4%). Professional visitors totalled 12,000, with local visitors accounting for 24.9%.
There were 714 exhibitors who participated in the exhibitions organised by non-government organisations and 42.4% of them were from Hong Kong; meanwhile, number of professional visitors totalled 11,000, with 25.6% being local visitors.
10
7 284
First Half Year
71 524
20 83 891 74 828 3 725 Current Quarter
18.0%
20.7%
9.1%
17.4%
7.5%
27.3%
Accommodation, Food & Beverages (MOP 10.23 million)
Others (Including Compensation of Employees, Service Charges for companies providing conference & exhibition
organising services, Freight, Security Services, etc.)
(MOP 16.04 million) Publicity & Public
Relations (MOP 10.60 million) Production,
Construction &
Decoration (MOP 12.17 million)
Rental Paid for Venue (MOP 5.37 million)
Transport (MOP 4.40 million)
18.1%
28.1%
22.5%
9.5%
4.0%
17.8%
Freight (MOP 1.32 million) Accommodation, Food & Beverages (MOP 3.14 million)
Others (Including Compensation of Employees, Service Charges for companies providing conference & exhibition
organising services, Transport, Security Services, etc.)
(MOP 5.88 million) Publicity & Public
Relations (MOP 5.97 million) Production,
Construction &
Decoration (MOP 9.29 million)
Rental Paid for Venue (MOP 7.42 million)
Structure of Receipts and Expenditure of Structure of Receipts and Expenditure of Interviewed Exhibitors
Interviewed Exhibitors %
•
Receipts
Sales of Products
Financial Support from Government •
& Other Organisations and Others Expenditure
Rental Paid for Exhibition Booth Booth Decoration & Construction Publicity & Public Relations Freight and Others
Comments from Interviewed Exhibitors %
Organisation of Event Hospitality
Promotion Venue
Facilities Management Ease of Access Venue Staff
Professionalism Language Skills Work Efficiency & Attitude
Services Rendered by Local Companies Services
Arrangements
Comments from Interviewed Exhibitors
• •
• •
Incentives
•
•
nd
Among the exhibitors who had used services rendered by local companies, the proportions of those who were satisfied with the arrangements (83.2%) and services (82.5%) of the companies dropped by 1.1 percentage points and 2.5 percentage points respectively quarter- to-quarter.
10.1 10.1 15.1 14.8 54.4
8.6 5.7
1.7 -0.4
100.0
Information provided by the 628 interviewed exhibitors in the second quarter indicated that sales of products constituted 97.6% of their receipts, whereas rental paid for exhibitions booths took up 54.4% of their expenditure.
4.6 77.9
First Half Year of
2019
55.4 32.5 29.3
3.8 100.0
98.4 1.6
100.0 3.3
100.0 100.0
96.7 98.0
100.0
2.4 2.0
Current Quarter
First Half Year of
2018
Regarding comments from the interviewed exhibitors in the second quarter, the shares of the exhibitors who complimented on the professionalism (86.8%), language skills (86.5%) and efficiency &
attitude (85.9%) of the venue staff rose by 5.5 percentage points, 3.1 percentage points and 4.6 percentage points respectively quarter-to- quarter.
1.0
46.5 83.2 -1.1 9.9 -
46.5
Quarter-to- quarter
(p.p.) No
Comment Improvement
Needed
Quarter-to- quarter
(p.p.)
17.8 -1.1
2.2 -4.9
0.6
-0.5
15.7 -2.6
Fair
Quarter-to- quarter
(p.p.)
According to the information collected from the 1,186 exhibitors in the first half year of 2019, the majority of their receipts were generated from sales of products (96.7% of total), while their expenditure was mainly spent on rental paid for exhibition booths (55.1% of total) and booth decoration & construction (32.5%).
15.2 1.0
1.6
1.0 -1.5
1.5
1.3 0.7
82.5 -2.5
11.4
-1.1 5.6
-1.8 97.8
80.6
1.7
4.0 3.5
76.0 -2.0
Same Quarter
Last Year 97.6
100.0
100.0 100.0
5.2 8.3
54.2
1.1 55.1
Exhibition Organiser
97.5 1.8
98.1 85.9
99.4 99.4 Proportion of exhibitors using
the services
100.0
97.9 33.8 31.1
3.1 3.9 Quarter-to-
quarter (p.p.)
86.5 79.8
0.3
There were 7 incentives in the first half year of 2019, a decrease of 1 year-on-year; number of participants (14,000) and total floor area used (118,000 m²) dropped by 24.9% and 21.4% respectively; meanwhile, the average duration of the incentives (3.8 days) extended by 0.8 day.
-0.6
0.7 -0.6
5.9 0.3
0.4 0.1
Number of incentives in the second quarter remained at 2; number of participants (1,072) and total floor area used (4,128 m ²) saw obvious decline of 80.1% and 82.8% respectively year-on-year; while the average duration of the incentives was lengthened by 2.2 days to 6.0 days.
-3.7
3.2 -0.3
11.9 2.5 9.5
100.0
Satisfied
86.8 5.5
67.8 9.6
79.6
As regards the venue, the shares of exhibitors who were satisfied with the management (80.6%) and the facilities (76.0%) of the venue fell by 0.4 percentage points and 2.0 percentage points respectively quarter- to-quarter. Besides, 8.8% of the exhibitors indicated that the facilities should be improved, an increase of 2.9 percentage points over the previous quarter.
9.9
1.7
Among all rated aspects, the proportion of exhibitors who expressed satisfaction with the promotion of the exhibitions was 67.8%, an increase of 1.1 percentage points quarter-to-quarter; meanwhile, 11.9% of the exhibitors considered that improvement in promotion was necessary, up slightly by 0.6 percentage points.
-0.2
1.3 -2.2
6.2 1.8
-0.2 2.9
0.9 -1.9
8.8
1.4
-2.1 0.7 0.4 2.5
-1.3
0.1 -0.6
Number of Incentives and Participants 1.8 1.1
15.4 0.4
2 2
1
5
0 2 4 6 8 10
0 2 4 6 8 10
Number of Incentives Number of Participants
Q2 Q2
2019 2018
No. ’000
Historical Data
No. of MICE Events Meetings & Conferences Of which: 4 hours or more Exhibitions
Incentives
Participants and Attendees (’000) Meeting Participants Of which: 4 hours or more Exhibition Attendees Incentive Participants Average Duration of Events (day)
Average Duration of Meetings & Conferences Of which: 4 hours or more
Average Duration of Exhibitions Average Duration of Incentives Total Floor Area Used (’000 m2)
Meetings & Conferences Of which: 4 hours or more Exhibitions
Incentives
Note: Incentives in 2015 only include incentive meetings.
Survey Coverage:
Glossary:
Government Meeting1:
Association Meeting: An event initiated by an association.
Corporate Meeting1:
Conference:
Commercial Exhibition1 includes events where:
a)
b) Incentive:
Note 1:
Absolute value equals zero Thousand Square metre
No figure provided Macao Pataca Number
Percentage Percentage point Magnitude less than half of the unit employed
For additional information:
http://www.dsec.gov.mo/e/mice.aspx
nd
0#
104
~ 2 135 22 24 ~ 6 146 38 151
67 67 86 84 81 114 115 96 98
An event at which attendees are civil servants, government officials or service providers to governmental entities, with the aim of discussing topics or reaching agreements.
Gathering of employees or representatives of a commercial organisation. Usually, travel, accommodation and meal expenses of the attendees are paid for by the organisation.
An event where the attendees meet to exchange views, convey a message, open a debate or give publicity to some area of opinion on specific issues. Usually, a conference is divided into sessions based on various areas relevant to the conference theme.
1 046
64 88 128 309 433 223 166 194 546 997
78 110 157 339 459 254 207 257 608
145 179 377 444 564 368 327 499 744 1 301
3.7
~ 2.9 2.0 3.1 3.8 ~ 3.1 1.9 3.2 3.0
3.3 3.2 3.4 3.8 3.8 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.5
1.5
2.3 2.1 1.9 2.0 1.8 2.4 2.1 2.0 2.1 1.9
1.8 1.7 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.9 1.7 1.4 1.6
1.9 1.8 1.5 1.6 1.5 2.0 1.8 1.5 1.7
~ 1 23 9 5 ~ 3 25 13
500 384 408 351 304 764 614 518 514
17 22 26 35 91 49 42 40 79
404 408 826 670 605 626
207
MOP Symbols and abbreviations:
2nd Quarter First Half Year
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
20
% -
p.p.
’000
~
16
A management tool that an enterprise uses by providing a travel experience with pre-arranged meetings to motivate and recognise employees or relevant individuals for their outstanding performance. An incentive may include various sessions, of which meetings are an essential part of the event.
14 2 ~
152 195 409
No.
m²
Exhibitors display, promote and/or sell products of one or more industries to public consumers.
MICE Statistics covers meetings & conferences, commercial exhibitions and incentives that are held in paid venues, such as hotels and major convention &
exhibition centres in Macao. However, meetings with less than 10 participants; meetings for product launch, orientation and press conference; as well as exhibitions not involving business activities, e.g. photo, painting and other cultural & art exhibitions, are excluded.
References are made to the "Global Meetings Initiative / volume 1" and "Measuring the Economic Importance of the Meetings Industry - Developing a Tourism Satellite Account Extension " of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
225
29 6
Exhibitors display goods and services of one or more industries. These events focus primarily on business-to-business relationship. The primary activity of attendees is to visit exhibits on the show floor;
5
19
522 413
320 299
22 29 36 44 99 62 54 61 99
~ 18
8
318 333 327 500
586 630
213 184
11 9 31
469
292 308 316
1.6
699 655
686 156 497 11
170 652
22 18 19
26 18
576
468
365 442 445
613 628
220 348
