Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday the government was open to discussing lawmaker Agnes Lam Iok Fong’s recent proposal to charge tourists an entry fee in an attempt to control the number of visitor arrivals.
Tam told reporters on the sidelines of the International Gastronomy Forum Macau at Galaxy Macau’s JW Marriot Hotel that he found Lam’s proposal “interesting”, but acknowledged that as there existed different opinions about her suggestion, civil society needed to discuss the idea.
Tam said that Lam could ask her fellow lawmakers if they agreed or not with her proposal, adding that the government was open “not just to her idea.”
