Macau’s 141 hotels recorded 1.32 million guests in January, a year-on-year growth of 55.7 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
A DSEC statement pointed out that the figure represented an increase of 7.4 percent compared to the same month of pre-pandemic 2019.
Macau confirmed its first COVID-19 case in January 2020.
Guests from the Chinese mainland (1,004,000), Hong Kong (140,000) and Taiwan (32,000) rose by 50.5 percent, 28.3 percent and 310.2 percent respectively. Mainlanders, Hongkongers and Taiwanese accounted for 76.0 percent, 10.6 percent and 2.4 percent of all guests respectively.
Guests from South Korea grew by 1,756.0 percent to 31,000.
Guests stayed for an average of 1.6 nights, down by 0.1 night year on year but up by 0.2 night compared to January 2019.
Macau’s number of hotels rose by 16 year on year, while the number of available guestrooms grew by 20.4 percent to 46,000.
Guestrooms’ average occupancy rate increased by 14.5 percentage points year on year to 85.9 percent.
Macau’s daily average of hotel guests stood at 42,580 in January.
