The government plans to convert the former leper colony in Ka Ho village in Coloane into a tourist attraction, a part of which is to repair half a dozen Portuguese-style houses in the hamlet. 

The plan to the make the village a tourist attraction was first mooted when Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng visited the hamlet in June.

A regular meeting of the government-appointed Tourism Development Committee yesterday discussed the government’s plan. After the meeting, several government officials, including Tam and Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes and members of the committee visited the village.

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng (front, third from right) and members of the Tourism Development Committee listen to a presentation by Leong Wai Man (front, second from right), head of the Cultural Heritage Department of the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) during a fact-finding visit to the former leper colony in Ka Ho Village in Coloane yesterday. Photo: GCS 

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