Macau's 146 hotels with 44,000 guestrooms recorded 12.07 million guests in the first 10 months of the year, a year-on-year growth of 9.3 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.
According to a DSEC statement on Wednesday, compared with the same 10-month period of last year, guests' average length of stay remained at 1.7 nights.
Last month, the number of hotel guests dropped by 5.8 percent year on year to 1.17 million, which recovered to the pre-pandemic October 2019 level (99.9 percent).
In October, hotels' average occupancy rate rose by 4.5 percentage points year on year to 87.3 percent.
Mainland Chinese and Hongkongers made up the bulk of Macau's hotel guests last month. South Koreans continued to be Macau's top foreign hotel guest segment, rising by 51.2 percent year on year to 30,000 in Ocober, when 4,000 US citizens checked into local hotels.
Meanwhile, the bureau has also announced that 1.69 million package tour members visited Macau between January and October, a year-on-year growth of 84.9 percent. Package tour members from mainland China rose by 76.1 percent year on year to 1.5 milllion in the 10-month period, accounting for 89 percent of all package tour visitors.
Caption: Cars are parked in front of the main entrance to Grand Emperor Hotel at Macau's Nam Van (Praia Grande) Bay on Wednesday night. - Photo: Carl Leong
