Macau's 115 hotels and inns recorded 435,000 guests in August, a year-on-year increase of 136.8 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.
According to a DSEC statement this week, mainland guests rose 573.9 percent to 300,000, accounting for 68.9 percent of all guests.
Local staycationers dropped 11.7 percent to 109,000, or 25.0 percent of the total number of guests in August.
Guests' average length of stay stood at 1.8 nights, 0.4 night more than a year earlier.
The number of available guestrooms rose 2.8 percent to 36,000. The statement underlined that data on hotels and inns designated by the government for medical observation quarantine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic were excluded from the statistics.
Guestrooms' average occupancy rate rose 25.1 percentage points year-on-year to 38.4 percent. However, the figure represented a month-on-month drop of 25.3 percentage points in the wake of temporarily tightened entry and exit rules due to the novel coronavirus threat in August.
In the first eight months, 4.5 million guests checked into Macau's hotels and inns, up by 108.1 percent. The average room occupancy rate in the January-August period reached 50.5 percent, up by 27.0 percentage points.
The statement noted that there were no inbound tour group visitors in August.
