澳门特区政府将“会议为先”作为会展行业的发展策略已推行两年多,其间推出若干有针对性的政策措施,扶持澳门会展业的发展。在此背景下,澳门会展业,尤其是会议业保持较好的发展态势。业界普遍认为,通过发展会议业,可凸显澳门旅游休闲城市的文化优势,以及在物流成本方面的比较优势。不过,办会办展成本偏高、人力资源短缺、会展设施缺乏、通关复杂等问题,仍然制约着会展业的进一步发展。梳理相关的政策措施可以发现,特区政府以“会议为先”的策略正在显现明显的作用,尤其是对社区经济发展将带来深远的影响。
<<The Government of Macau SAR has adopted “Priority to Conventions” as its development strategy for the MICE industry for more than two years and launched many targeted policy measures so that stand by the development of MICE industry in Macau. Under this premise the MICE industry in Macau maintains a better development trend,especially conference industry. The industry generally thinks that through the development of the MICE industry can show the tourism and leisure cultural advantages and logistics costs advantages of Macau. But Macau still has many problems in this industry such as the cost of organizing exhibitions is high,shortage of human resources,lack of convention and exhibition facilities,Macau’s exit and entry procedures are complicated and other problems. It is still affecting the development of the convention and exhibition industry. The related policy measures can be found the Government of Macau SAR “Priority to Conventions” strategy is showing obvious effect. In particular,it will have a profound impact on the economic development of the community.
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