Macau’s 149 hotels—including 40 five-star and 45 budget hotels—recorded 9.64 million
guests in the first eight months of the year, a year-on-year drop of 1.6 percent, the Statistics
and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.
According to a DSEC statement on Wednesday, hotel guest numbers declined by 2.6 percent year-on-year to 1.27 million in August. Guests from the Chinese mainland (978,000) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (136,000) fell by 1.3 percent and 11.0 percent, respectively. International guests (86,000) decreased by 2.9 percent. While guests from South Korea (27,000) dropped by 3.6 percent, those from the US (5,000) rose by 31.5 percent.
Guests from the Chinese mainland accounted for 77.0 percent of total hotel guests in August, while foreign nationals made up 6.77 percent.
In August, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms stood at 93.9 percent, an uplift of 0.8 percentage points year-on-year.
The total number of available guest rooms reached 45,300 in August.
Undated file photo of Grand Coloane Resort near Macau's Hac Sa Beach. - Photo courtesy of MGTO
