Macau's 146 hotels recorded 14.4 million hotel guests last year, a year-on-year increase of 6.4 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.
According to a DSEC statement this week, the hotel sector's average occupancy rate of guestrooms rose by 4.9 percentage points year on year to 86.4 percent in 2024, when guests' average length of stay remained unchanged at 1.7 nights.
Last year, the number of available guestrooms decreased by 7.8 percent to 43,000.
The number of foreign hotel guests grew by 57.4 percent year on year to 1.1 million, or 7.67 percent of the total number of hotel guests last year. The number of South Korea hotel guests increased by 100.8 percent to 321,000, accounting for nearly 29 percent of all foreign hotel guests last year. Malaysians (87,000 +53.4 percent), Japanese (81,000 +49.1 percent), Indians (73,000 +97.2 percent) and Singaporeans (68,000 +24.1 percent) made up the hotel sector's other major foreign guest segments last years, according to the bureau. Compatriots from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan accounted for 92.33 percent of the total number of hotel guests.
Meanwhile, Macau received 2.1 million package tour visitors last year, an increase of 63.8 percent. Mainland Chinese accounted for 88.77 percent of all package tour visitors. Among package tour visitors from foreign countries, those of South Korea (91,000) and India (24,000) grew by 226.4 percent and 302.2 percent respectively.
