Macau’s hotels recorded 4.86 million guests in the first four months of this year, a year-on-year growth of 1.9 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced in a statement this week.
The number of foreign guests rose by 13.8 percent to 453,000 between January and April, accounting for 9.3 percent of the total number of guests. Some 90.7 percent of Macau's hotel guests were compatriots from the Chinese mainland, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and China's Taiwan region.
In April, the number of hotel guests dipped by 0.8 percent year-on-year to 1.86 million. Guests from the Chinese mainland made up 71.1 percent of the total number of guests. Last month, South Koreans (31,000) and Thai (12,000) made up the hotel industry’s top two international guest segments.
In the first four months, guest rooms’ average occupancy rate increased by 2.2 percentage points year-on-year to 91.8 percent.
According to other hotel industry data released by the bureau previously, Macau’s 147 hotels – including 39 five-star and 44 budget hotels – comprised 45,129 rooms and 119,762 beds at the end of the first quarter.
In the first four months, Macau recorded 14.65 million visitor arrivals, a year-on-year growth of 13.1 percent, according to a previous announcement by the bureau.
Hotel guests accounted for 32.8 percent of all visitor arrivals in the first four months of the year, DSEC figures show.
At the end of the first quarter, Macau’s population amounted to 688,100, according to official demographics.
Caption: Pedestrians walk in front of Yoyo Treasure Island hotel on Praça de Ferreira do Amaral, one of Macau's main bus interchange hubs, this afternoon. - Photo: Carl Leong
