The occupancy rate of Macau’s guest rooms of hotel establishments reached 90.4% for the first six months of 2026 combined, representing a 1.3 percentage point improvement over the same period last year.
This included a 93.8% rate for 5-star hotel rooms, up 1.4 percentage points, and an 87.4% rate for 4-star rooms, up 4.3 percentage points. The rate for 3-star hotels dropped by 1.0 percentage points to 84.4%, according to information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
While the occupancy rate increase, the number of hotel guests fell by 1.1% year-on-year to 7,127,000 in 1H26, with guests from mainland China down 2.5% to 5,214,000 and from Hong Kong also down 2.5% to 857,000.
International guests increased by 12.3% year-on-year to 662,000. Of those, guests from South Korea grew by 13.0% to 191,000, from Thailand by 43.5% to 54,000, from India by 43.5% to 48,000 and from the USA by 27.8% to 34,000. Guests from Japan fell by 5.6% to 45,000 and from Malaysia by 6.0% to 42,000.
For the month of June alone, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotel establishments fell by 2.6 percentage points year-on-year to 85.8% while the number of guests decreased by 8.6% year-on-year to 1,095,000, although which international guests rose by 3.0% to 94,000.
In the first half of the year, number of inbound package tour visitors to Macau totaled 845,000, down by 12.6% year-on-year, including 88,000 in June, down 14.2%
