The average room occupancy rate of Macau’s hotels and guesthouses fell to 11.6 percent between February 1 and14, Inés Chan Lou, head of the Licensing and Inspection Department of the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), said yesterday.
Chan revealed the figure during the daily press conference by the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic.
The number of hotels and guesthouses closed in response to the novel coronavirus threat stood at 29 on Saturday.
The average room occupancy rate of Macau’s 123 hotels and guesthouses stood at 90.8 percent last year, according to DSEC data. The number of hotel and guesthouse guests rose 1.1 percent year-on-year to 14.1 percent last year.
Officials at the press conference also revealed that Macau recorded 4,300 visitor arrivals on Monday, an increase of 53 percent from the previous day. The daily average number of visitor arrivals in December (the last available official data) stood at 99,464.
