Macau’s 144 hotels recorded 1.26 million guests last month, a year-on-year decline of 3.8 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
The hotel industry’s number of available rooms remained unchanged at 45,000 in August.
A DSEC statement pointed out that last month’s number of guests reached 99.7 percent of the figure recorded in the same month of pre-pandemic 2019.
Foreign guests rose by 21.0 percent to 73,000, among whom those from South Korea (26,000) grew by 40.3 percent year on year. Foreign nationals accounted for 5.8 percent of all hotel guests.
Guests’ average length of stay remained unchanged at 1.6 nights, an increase of 0.1 night compared to August 2019.
In the first eight months, the number of guests grew by 12.9 percent to 9.77 million. Hotels’ average occupancy rates increased by 4.6 percentage points to 85.5 percent.
