The Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) has appointed VFS Global as its new representative office for India. Arzan Khambatta is the newly appointed general manager of the MGTO representative office in India. On January 28, 2015 MGTO will hold an inauguration in New Delhi to officially unveil the new representative office and highlight the promotional activities Macau has planned for India. MGTO deputy director Cecilia Tse will be at the Indian capital to chair the inauguration.
India is one of the most important potential international source markets for Macau. Following double-digit growth in previous years, the number of visitor arrivals from India has kept a good performance in 2014, totaling more than 167,000 for the whole year, up by 4.5 per cent year-on-year, among which 80.1 per cent of visitors stayed overnight in Macau, 3.1 per cent more compare to the previous year, according with preliminary figures.