Hotel guests rise 165 pct to 13.5 million in 2023
A total of 13.5 million guests checked into Macau’s 142 hotels in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 165.4 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. According to a DSEC statement on Monday, last year’s number of hotel guests recovered to 96.2 percent of the level in pre-pandemic 2019. Macau’s tourism sector was hard hit by the three-year COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2022. Guests from the Chinese mainland (9.8 million), Hong Kong (2.2 million) and