Macau's 120 hotels and inns welcomed 440,000 guests last month, a year-on-year decline of 16.4 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced this week.
The number of mainland guests (333,000) dropped by 20.3 percent while local staycationers (80,000) rose 1.2 percent.
Guests' average length of stay fell by 0.1 night to 1.7 nights.
In the first three quarters, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotels and inns decreased by 12.9 percentage points year on year to 37.5 percent. The number of guests dipped 25.5 percent to 3,754,000, whereas their average length of stay rose by 0.1 night to 1.9 nights.
Last month's number of available guest rooms rose by 4.8 percent year on year to 37,000.
The bureau pointed out that data on hotel establishments designated for COVID-19 medical observation quarantine were excluded from the data. The average occupancy rate of guest rooms last month dropped by 11.9 percentage points year on year to 37.6 percent.
The bureau said in a separate statement earlier this week that the number of visitor arrivals leaped by 68.3 percent month on month to 557,842 last month. However, it dropped by 11.3% year on year. Mainland Chinese accounted for 90.1 percent of all visitor arrivals.
In the first three quarters, visitor arrivals increased by 24.2 percent year on year to 4.36 million. Same-day visitors (2,619,343) and overnight visitors (1,744,762) fell by 8.2 percent and 39.9 percent respectively.
Caption: Undated file photo of Macau's Riviera Hotel on Penha Hill. – Photo courtesy of Agoda
