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_2021-02-19
Macau’s tourism officials are pressing the mainland government to restart the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) electronic visa, which would allow for more seamless travel between the two countries. 

_2020-08-25
Guangdong province, the largest source market for Macau, started accepting applications for tourism visas to the Special Administrative Region on Tuesday. 

_2020-08-11
China has confirmed it will begin issuing individual visit scheme visas for the whole of Guangdong province on August 26 and will extend the program to all of China from Sept. 23.

_2020-06-16
Restrictions on border crossings into Macau will not likely be lifted by the end of June, according to analysts from Bernstein Research.  While th

_2020-06-04
Chongqing has resumed the processing of the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) and group tour travel visas to Macau and Hong Kong, according to an announce

_2016-04-06
Chinese outbound travellers are increasingly looking for longer-haul destinations away from the mainland, according to China’s Outbound Tourism Rese

_2016-03-28
The Macau government is not currently seeking to increase visitors from mainland China nor expand the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) policy, according

_2015-06-30
The Macau government has announced a reversal of the previously tightened transit visa policy, which was first put in place on July 1, 2014.  The new

_2015-04-27
Overall visits to Macau in March dropped 14 percent year-on-year while visitors from Mainland China fell 18 percent, a reversal of the growth trend se