The average occupancy of Macau’s guest rooms of hotel establishments in the first quarter of 2026 reached 92.3% – an uplift of 2.1 percentage points year-on-year according to information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). The number of guests of hotel establishments also increased by 2.6% year-on-year to 3,673,000.
The 1Q26 figures included an occupancy rate of 95.4 for 5-star hotels, up 2.1 percentage points, while 4-star hotels grew by 4.0 percentage points to 88.7% and 3-star hotels by 0.9 percentage points to 87.5%.
Among hotel guests in the first quarter, those from the Chinese mainland totaled 2,743,000, up by 0.6% year-on-year.
International guests (338,000) grew by 16.0% year-on-year; of which those from the Republic of Korea (106,000), Thailand (28,000), Malaysia (22,000) and India (19,000) grew by 15.1%, 61.3%, 1.2% and 51.0% respectively. Those from Japan (25,000) and Indonesia (14,000) fell by 2.9% and 18.2% respectively.
For the month of March, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotel establishments was 90.8%, up by 1.7 percentage points year-on-year. However, the number of guests diminished slightly by 0.6% year-on-year to 1,202,000, of which international guests rose by 22.2% to 129,000.
