Five-star hotels in Macau were the most occupied among all accommodation types, with occupancy rates reaching 89.1 percent in February, according to information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
The average occupancy rate of Macau’s hotels went up by 9.5 percentage points year-on-year to 85.6 percent last month, as the Chinese New Year break fell in February.
Four-star hotels’ occupancy rates rose by 6.3 percentage points, reaching 80.1 percent, whereas the rate for 3-star hotels, with 79.1 percent occupancy, dropped by 3.1 percentage points compared to the same period last year.
Macau has a total of 141 hotels with 46,000 rooms until the end of February, while all those hotels received 1,228,000 guests in February, up by 39.6 percent year-on-year and 14.2 percent over the same month in 2019.
Guests are mainly coming from mainland China, with 939,000 Chinese guests, 26,000 from Taiwan, and 25,000 from South Korea.
While Macau hotels received fewer visitors from Hong Kong, as the number of Hong Kong travelers dropped by 12.7 percent to 141,000. The average length of stay for guests remained stable year-on-year at 1.6 nights, representing an increase of 0.1 night compared to February 2019
During the initial two months of 2024, the average occupancy rate of hotels reached 85.8 percent. Accompanying this rise, the number of guests increased by 47.6 percent compared to the previous year, totaling 2,550,000. However, their average length of stay saw a slight reduction, decreasing by 0.1 night to 1.6 nights.
Meanwhile, the number of visitors arriving on package tours surged dramatically, increasing by 766.7 percent year-on-year to reach 144,000 in February.
