Macau’s hotel occupancy rate reached 82.3% in November, largely flat month-on-month but up by 43.7 percentage points compared with the same month in 2022, according to information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
The figure included a 47.2 year-on-year percentage point increase in 5-star hotel rooms to 82.7%, while at the other end of the spectrum 2-star hotel rooms grew by 37.6 percentage points to 88.9%.
This was aided by an increase in the total number of hotel establishments citywide of 22 compared to a year earlier to 141 hotel establishments offering accommodation services to the public.
The number of guests of Macau’s hotels also leapt by 194.5% year-on-year in November to 1,202,000, including 882,000 guests from mainland China, 154,000 from Hong Kong and 27,000 from Taiwan (27,000). The average length of stay of guests decreased by 0.1 nights to 1.6 nights.
For the first 11 months of 2023, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotel establishments grew by 43.0 percentage points year-on-year to 81.0%, while the number of guests soared by 162.9% year-on-year to 12,245,000.
November saw 206,000 visitors arriving on package tours, taking the 11-month total to 1,120,000.
