Macau’s average hotel occupancy rate reached 93.9% in August, up 0.8% year-on-year despite a slight decline in the total number of guests.
According to information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), the number of guests of hotel establishments fell by 2.6% year-on-year to 1,270,000 in August, with those from mainland China down 1.3% to 978,000 and from Hong Kong down 11.9% to 136,000. International guests also fell by 2.9% to 86,000 including a 3.6% decline in arrivals from South Korea to 27,000. Arrivals from the United States grew by 31.5% to around 5,000.
By hotel room category, the occupancy rates for 5-star hotels fell 0.5 percentage points year-on-year in August to 95.1%, while the 4-star occupancy rate improved by 5.4 percentage points to 94.4% and 3-star by 1.2 percentage points to 91.1%.
The number of inbound package tour visitors totaled 178,000, up 14.4% year-on-year.
For the first eight months of 2026 combined, the average occupancy rate of Macau’s hotels was 91.0%, up 1.1 percentage points year-on-year. The number of guests decreased by 1.6% year-on-year to 9,640,000, of which international guests rose by 10.4% to 838,000.
A total of 1,169,000 inbound package tour visitors were recorded in the first eight months, down by 8.2% year-on-year.
