Macau hotels saw a 3.1-percentage point increase in the average occupancy rate in 2025, reaching 89.4 percent.
According to the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), there was a 1 percent increase in the number of hotel guests, at 14.56 million. The customers filled up Macau’s 45,000 available guest rooms, whose number increased by 4.9 percent yearly.
Five-star hotels led with the highest occupancy rate of 92.9 percent in FY25, while 4-star hotels saw 83.8 percent occupancy and 3-star hotels garnered 85 percent occupancy – growth of 4.4, 1.8 and 1.2 percentage points year-on-year, respectively.
Guests from mainland China comprised the majority, with a yearly increase of 1.4 percent, to 10.73 million. International guests saw a strong increase, likely boosted by operators’ and the government’s attempts to attract more foreign visitors.
International hotel guest numbers rose by 11.8 percent yearly, to nearly 1.24 million – visitor numbers from Korea increased by 9.3 percent (350,000), those from Japan rose by 25.5 percent (102,000), from Malaysia by 6.5 percent (93,000) and from Thailand by 33.4 percent (88,000). Hotel guest numbers from Hong Kong fell by 4.1 percent yearly, to 1.77 million.
The average length of stay of guests stayed the same, at 1.7 nights.
Hotels saw a strong end to the year, with the December occupancy rate hitting 90.4 percent, up by 1.2 percentage points yearly. The overall number of guests in the month amounted to over 1.25 million, an increase of 5.8 percent, with the average length of stay extending by 0.1 night to 1.7 nights.
As at the end of 2025, there were 174 hotel establishments offering accommodation services to the public in Macau, a yearly increase of one.
