Local residents accounted for 67.4 percent of hotel guests last month, a 137 percent year-on-year increase to 124,000, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement yesterday.
Macau’s population stood at 685,400 at the end of June, according to official demographics.
According to yesterday’s DSEC statement, the number of hotel guests from Macau rose by 52.4 percent month-to-month in August, as hotels continued to offer promotional packages to residents.
Guests from the mainland (44,000) and Hong Kong (11,000) each declined by over 90 percent year-on-year. Guests’ average length of stay amounted to 1.4 nights, down by 0.1 night year-on-year.
The total number of guests last month dropped by 85.5 percent year-on-year to 184,000.
The number of available guestrooms dropped by 9.7 percent to 35,000 last month. The statement pointed out that data on hotels and guesthouse booked by the government for quarantine and medical observation purposes during the COVID-19 pandemic were excluded from the hotel sector statistics for last month.
Guestrooms’ average occupancy rate stood at 13.3 percent, a year-on-year decline of 79.7 percentage points. Available guestrooms decreased by 9.7 percent to 35,000 last month. The number of hotels and guesthouses which were open for business last month dropped by two year-on-year to 117.
In the first eight months of the year, the number of hotel and guesthouse guests decreased by 77 percent to 2.167 million.
