Macau’s average hotel room occupancy rate rose by 0.5 percentage points year-on-year to 91.6% in July, though the number of hotel guests fell by 4.3%.
Data from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) showed that the occupancy rates for five-star and four-star hotels in July stood at 94.2% and 90.3%, up by 0.2 and 3.8 percentage points respectively. Meanwhile, the occupancy rate for three-star hotels dropped by 1.5 percentage points to 85.5%.
It also revealed that the total number of hotel guests reached approximately 1.23 million, a year-on-year decrease of 4.3%. Guests from mainland China (923,000) and Hong Kong (145,000) declined by 3.9% and 13.8% respectively. In contrast, international guests rose by 9.5% year-on-year to 89,000.
Among international guests, visitors from India (8,000), Thailand (8,000), and the United States (6,000) increased by 81.1%, 21.2% and 24.4% respectively. Meanwhile, guests from South Korea (25,000) decreased by 3.0%.
For the first seven months of this year, the average hotel occupancy rate went up by 1.2 percentage points year-on-year to 90.6%. Total hotel guests dropped by 1.4% to 8.37 million, while international guests totaled 753,000, representing a 12.2% increase.
Additionally, tour group visitors arriving in July totaled 141,000, down 6.7% year-on-year. Group visitors from mainland China fell by 7.2% to 123,000.
