Macau’s 148 hotels, including 44 budget hotels, recorded 8.36 million guests in the first seven months of the year, a year-on-year decline of 1.4 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.
According to a DSEC statement, the average occupancy rate of guestrooms stood at 90.6 percent in the seven-month period, up by 1.2 percentage points year-on-year.
Foreign guests rose by 12.2 percent to 753,000, accounting for nearly 9.0 percent of the total.
In July, hotel guests dropped by 4.3 percent to 1.23 million. Guests from the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong accounted for 75.1 percent and 11.8 percent of the total. South Koreans continued to be the number-one segment among foreign guests, at 25,000, but dipped by 3.0 percent year-on-year.
In July, 5-star hotels recorded an average room occupancy rate of 94.2 percent.
