Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicates that the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotel establishments in Macau stood at 94.6% in February, an uplift of 4.0 percentage points year-on-year. The number of guests of hotel establishments also increased by 10.1% to 1,226,000.
This compared to an occupancy rate of 91.6% on 1,236,000 guests in January.
According to the DSEC data, 5-star hotels delivered the strongest performance with the occupancy rate reaching 95.9% in February – up 2.4 percentage points year-on-year. By contrast, occupancy rates for 4-star and 3-star hotels recorded slight declines, standing at 85.2% and 85.7%, down 0.5 percentage points and 3.2 percentage points, respectively.
The majority of guests, 955,000, were from mainland China, representing a 11.8% year-on-year increase, while guests from the Hong Kong SAR totaled 124,000, a rise of 6.6%. International guests numbered 81,000, down by 5.7% year-on-year.
The breakdown of international guests by major source market showed that guests from Japan (5,000) fell sharply by 32.5% year-on-year, while those from the Republic of Korea (30,000) and Thailand (6,000) went up by 1.3% and 0.6% respectively.
In the first two months of 2026 combined, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotel establishments was 93.1%, up by 2.4 percentage points year-on-year. The number of guests increased by 4.5% year-on-year to 2,477,000 with international guests totaling 210,000, up by 12.9%.
