The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) announced yesterday that the 29th Macau International Firework Display Contest will take place in September as well as on National Day, with this annual event coming back following its cancellation last year after Macau had been devastated by deadly Super Typhoon Hato.
Addressing a press conference at Wynn Palace in Cotai yesterday about the event, MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes noted that the annual firework contest was cancelled for the first time last year since its launch nearly three decades ago. She said that the government was grateful to the city’s tourism-related sectors for showing understanding for the government’s decision to cancel the pyrotechnic contest last year.
The annual Macau International Firework Display Contest was first launched in 1989 when Macau was still under Portuguese administration. Since then, the annual contest had never been cancelled, except last year when the government decided to cancel it for the government to focus on post-typhoon relief and recovery tasks.
Accompanied with three from her office, Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes (second from right on the panel) speaks during yesterday’s press conference at Wynn Palace in Cotai about the 29th Macau International Fireworks Display Contest. Photo: GCS
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