Staycationers accounted for 13.5 percent of Macau’s hotel guests last year, according to official statistics released last week.
According to a statement by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC), Macau’s 118 hotels and inns recorded 892,000 local guests in 2021, a year-on-year growth of 41.7 percent.Last year’s total number of guests rose by 71.0 percent year-on-year to 6.62 million. Mainland guests rose by 94.9 percent to 5.38 million, accounting for 81.2 percent of the total.
Guests stayed for an average of 1.8 nights.
At the end of last year, the number of available guest rooms stood at 39,000, a year-on-year growth of 10.3 percent.
The DSEC statement noted that that data on hotels and guesthouses designated for quarantine (medical observation and self-health monitoring) were excluded from the compilation of the results.
Last year’s average occupancy rate rose by 21.4 percentage points year-on-year to 50.0 percent.
In December, the sector welcomed 650,000 guests, a year-on-year increase of 12.1 percent. Mainland guests (531,000) and staycationers (85,000) rose by 7.8 percent and 39.6 percent respectively. Staycationers accounted for 13.1 percent of all hotel guests last month.
In pre-pandemic 2019, Macau’s hotels and inns welcomed 14.1 million guests, a year-on-year growth of 1.1 percent.
The bureau announced earlier this month that Macau’s visitor arrivals rose by 30.7 percent year-on-year to 7.7 million in 2021.
