Macau’s 143 hotels received 4.93 million guests in the first four months of the year, a year-on-year growth of 29.8 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
Hotels’ average occupancy rate rose by 8.4 percentage points year on year to 84.5 percent between January and April.
In April, 1.15 million hotel guests were recorded, up by 5.6 percent year on year. Compared to April in pre-pandemic 2019, the number of hotel guests was up by 1.3 percent.
Mainlanders accounted for 71.0 percent of hotel guests in April.
Guests from the Chinese mainland (823,000), China’s Taiwan region (34,000) and South Korea (24,000) rose by 11.8 percent, 96.1 percent and 245.2 percent year on year respectively, while guests from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (165,000) dropped by 35.0 percent.
Guests’ average length of stay remained basically unchanged at 1.6 nights.
Meanwhile, 720,000 visitors arrived on package tours in Macau in the first four months, a surge of 257.9 percent year on year. Mainlanders accounted for 89.3 percent of all package-tour visitors.
This hotel in the city centre is one of Macau’s rising number of budget hotels. – Photo taken yesterday by Carl Leong
