Macau’s 143 hotels recorded 7.27 million guests in the first half of this year, a year-on-year growth of 20.4 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.
According to a DSEC statement on Monday, the number of hotel guests in the first six months rose 5.3 percent compared with the same period of pre-pandemic 2019.
The number of foreign guests, i.e., those not from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong, increased 136.6 percent to 542,000, or 7.4 percent of the total number of guests.
Guests from South Korea increased 270.6 percent to 149,000, or 27.5 percent of all foreign guests.
Guests’ average length of stay remained unchanged year on year at 1.7 nights.
The total number of available guest rooms rose 9.1 percent to 47,000 at the end of June. Guestrooms’ average occupancy rate grew by 6.1 percentage points year on year to 84.0 percent in the first half.
In June, the hotel industry recorded 1.14 million guests, up by 0.4 percent year on year.
Undated file photo of Grand Coloane Resort – Photo courtesy of Booking.com
