Macau’s average hotel room occupancy rate rose by 0.5 percentage points year-on-year to 91.6 percent in July, despite a 4.3 percent decline in the number of guests staying at hotel establishments.
The number of hotel guests fell to 1.23 million during the month, according to data released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) on Friday.
Guests from mainland China, Macau’s largest source market, declined by 3.9 percent year-on-year to 923,000. The number of guests from Hong Kong fell more sharply, dropping 13.8 percent to 145,000.
International hotel guests, however, increased by 9.5 percent to 89,000.
India recorded the strongest growth among the international markets identified by DSEC, with guest numbers rising 81.1 percent to 8,000. Guests from the United States increased by 24.4 percent to 6,000, while those from Thailand rose by 21.2 percent to 8,000.
South Korea remained the largest international source market, with 25,000 hotel guests, although the total was down 3.0 percent year-on-year. Guests from Japan fell by 7.7 percent to 5,000.
Five-star hotels recorded the highest occupancy rate in July at 94.2 percent, up by 0.2 percentage points from a year earlier.
The occupancy rate at four-star hotels increased by 3.8 percentage points to 90.3 percent, while three-star hotel occupancy declined by 1.5 percentage points to 85.5 percent.
Macau received 141,000 inbound package tour visitors during the month, down by 6.7 percent year-on-year. Package tour visitors from mainland China decreased by 7.2 percent to 123,000.
For the first seven months of 2026, average hotel occupancy increased by 1.2 percentage points to 90.6 percent. The number of hotel guests fell by 1.4 percent to 8.37 million, although international guests rose by 12.2 percent to 753,000.
Inbound package tour visitors declined by 11.4 percent to 990,000 over the seven-month period.
