Macau’s hotels received 12.1 million guests in the first ten months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 0.4 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.
According to a DSEC statement yesterday, hotels’ average guestroom occupancy rate reached 89.3 percent in the ten-month period, up by 3.6 percentage points. The average length of stay for hotel guests remained at 1.7 nights.
In October, Macau’s 147 hotels recorded 1.2 million guests, a year-on-year growth of 3.0 percent. The number of available guestrooms rose by 3.4 percent year-on-year to 45,000.
Guests from the Chinese mainland (885,000; up by 1.6 percent) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (140,000; down by 1.9 percent) accounted for 73.0 percent and 11.5 percent of the total number of hotel guests, respectively. Foreign guests increased by 20.8 percent year-on-year to 118,000, including 34,000 from South Korea, the local hotel sector’s main foreign guest segment.
According to a previous DSEC statement, in the first ten months of this year, Macau’s number of visitor arrivals rose by 14.1 percent year-on-year to 33.1 million. Same-day visitors (19.38 million) and overnight visitors (13.76 million) grew by 24.1 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively.
Caption: This photo taken yesterday shows a large inflatable Santa Claus doll displayed on the rooftop of Macau's legendary Central Hotel on Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro. The 11-storey, 114-room hotel, opened in 1928 and reopened after renovation last year, features a rooftop promenade offering a view of Macau's UNESCO World Heritage-listed historic city centre, including the Ruins of St Paul's. - Photo: HB
