A total of 1,202,000 guests checked in Macau's hotels last month, leaping 194.5 percent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
The DSEC data showed that guests from the mainland and Hong Kong jumped by 173.8 percent and 788.2 percent year-on-year to 882,000 and 154,000, respectively.The average occupancy rate of guestrooms in November rose by 43.7 percentage points year-on-year to 82.3 percent.
The number of visitors arriving on package tours totaled 206,000 last month. Meanwhile, a total of 39,000 Macau residents purchased outbound services through travel agencies, an uplift of 486.7 percent year-on-year.
A total of 141 hotels offered accommodation services to the public in November, an increase of 22 year-on-year. Besides, the number of available guest rooms grew by 26.3 percent to 46,000, according to the data.
- Xinhua, MPD
Undated file photo of Hotel Metropole in Macau's city center - Image courtesy of Hotel Metropole
