Macau’s 147 hotels recorded 13.3 million guests in the first 11 months of last year, a year-on-year drop of 0.6 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced this week. In this period, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms rose by 3.2 percentage points year-on-year to 89.3 percent. In November, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms increased by 0.7 percent year-on-year to 90.2 percent. The number of guests increased by 1.9 percent year-on-year to 1.19 million. The total number of available guest rooms grew by 3.5 percent year-on-year to 45,000 at the end of November. Five-star hotels enjoyed the highest room occupancy rate, at 94.0 percent, up by 2.5 percentage points year-on-year.
In November, mainland Chinese guests (859,000; up by 8.2 percent) and Hongkongers (141,000; down by 0.7 percent) accounted for 72 percent and 11.8 percent of all guests, respectively. Foreign guests increased by 12.7 percent to 125,000, accounting for 10.4 percent of the total number of guests in November. South Koreans (34,000) made up the largest segment of international guests, accounting for 27.2 percent of the total.
Pedestrians walk past Macau's Metropole Hotel on Avenida da Praia Grande in the city centre this afternoon. - Photo: Carl Leong
