The average occupancy rate of Macau’s hotels reached 90.2% in April, climbing 2.4 percentage points year-on-year thanks to a strong uptake of 5-star hotel rooms and more international guests.
According to information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), the rate for 5-star hotels grew 2.1 percentage points to 93.0% in April, while 4-star hotel rooms grew by 5.8 percentage points to 88.2% and 3-star hotels by 0.2 percentage points to 84.6%.
That’s despite the number of guests edging down by 0.8% year-on-year to 1,186,000 in April. This included a 1.7% decline in guests from mainland China to 844,000 and a 3.5% decline from Hong Kong to 164,000.
Meanwhile, international guests increased by 8.1% year-on-year to 115,000. Of those, guests from South Korea grew by 20.3% to 31,000 and from Thailand by 40.5% to 12,000. Guests from India fell 17.5% to 8,000 and from Malaysia by 21.1% to 6,000.
The DSEC also revealed that the number of inbound package tour visitors totalled 187,000 in April, up by 7.2% year-on-year.
For the first four months of 2026 combined, the average occupancy rate of Macau’s hotel rooms grew by 2.2 percentage points to 91.8% while the number of guests increased by 1.9% year-on-year to 4,865,000. This included a 13.8% increase in international guests to 453,000.
