The government should speed up its processing of the 27 applications to run budget hotels in Macau, legislator Chan Meng Kam, who heads the legislature’s Follow-up Committee for Public Administration Affairs, said yesterday.
The committee met yesterday to follow up on the government’s current review of the law on illegal accommodation. Briefing reporters afterwards, Chan quoted officials attending the meeting as saying that the 27 applications involved over 1,700 hotel rooms.
Concerning Macau’s apparently still mushrooming underground inns, Chan said Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) data showed that most of the illegal hotels are located near casinos. He also said the government had encountered difficulties in clamping down on the clandestine hotels, adding that most of their operators are from the mainland and Hong Kong.
Legislator-cum-businessman Chan Meng Kam (right), who chairs the legislature’s Follow-up Committee for Public Administration Affairs, and lawmaker-cum-lawyer Vong Hin Fai, secretary of the committee, pose before briefing reporters about yesterday’s committee meeting. Photo: MPDG
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