Macau’s average room occupancy rate for the first half of 2024 rose by 6.1 percentage points year-on-year to 84.0%, according to information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). The occupancy rate of five-star hotels at 85.8% and four-star hotels at 80.4%, up by 8.1 and 4.5 percentage points respectively.
The first six months of the year also saw the number of hotel occupants increase by 20.4% to 7,277,000, which was 5.3% higher than the same period of 2019. Among them, 5.3 million hotel occupants were from mainland China, up 21.9% year-on-year.
There were 542,000 foreign hotel guests, up 140% year-on-year, of which 149,000 were from Korea, an increase of 270% year-on-year.
As of 30 June 2024, there were 143 hotel venues providing accommodation services to the public, an increase of 12 venues year-on-year, while the number of rooms available increased by 9.1% to 47,000 rooms.
The average room occupancy rate of hotel establishments for the month of June decreased by 1.4 percentage points year-on-year to 82.7%, although the number of guests increased by 0.4% to 1.14 million. The average length of stay decreased by 0.1 nights to 1.6 nights.
