Literature and music might not be on the minds of most visitors to Macau.
But the organisers of the city's first literature festival hope to turn over a new page in Macau's tourism history when they welcome writers from the mainland, Taiwan and Portuguese-speaking territories around the world for the start of a week of literary events.
The event, called The Script Road, opens next Sunday.
Ricardo Pinto, owner of the Portuguese-language newspaper Ponto Final, organised the festival in collaboration with the Portuguese Society of Arts and Letters.
'We wanted to do something fresh,' he said, so the international guests will include writers, musicians and film directors from Brazil, Portugal, Cape Verde, and the mainland.
The schedule includes talks, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings, a book fair and concerts as well as a tribute to Macanese writer Henrique de Senna Fernandes, who recently died.