The National Tourism Administration announced on 19 June the list of the 52 ground-receiving agencies for Macao tours.

According to the National Tourism Administration, in order to encourage Mainlanders to visit Macao and to safeguard the rights of the visitors and the operators of the travel agencies in Macao, the General Office of the State Council and related government departments of the MSAR have approved the list of the 52 Macao ground-receiving agencies. The agencies on this list will be announced shortly.

There were 80 Macao travel agencies which were interested in being ground-receiving agencies. The ground-receiving agencies in Macao will contract with the 67 Mainland tour operators to form the "Macao Group Tour Scheme."