The average occupancy rate of Macao’s hotels dropped slightly in April to 83.3 percent, compared to 83.5 percent in March. That’s according to data from the Statistics and Census Service (known by its Portuguese abbreviation DSEC).
In a year-on-year comparison, the rates for 5-star properties (85.1 percent) and 4-star hotels (79.6 percent) rose by 7.1 percentage points and 1 percentage point respectively, but the rate for 3-star establishments (81.1 percent) dropped by 4.9 percentage points.
Hotels welcomed 1,159,000 guests in April, down more than 6 percent from the 1,235,000 guests in March. The average length of stay remained unchanged at just 1.6 nights.
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Guests from South Korea – currently Macao’s largest foreign tourism market – showed a significant increase in April compared to the same month last year, growing by over 245 percent to 24,000.
However, most guests were domestic tourists. Guests from mainland China (823,000) and Taiwan (34,000) increased by 11.8 percent and just over 96 percent respectively year-on-year, while those from Hong Kong (165,000) dropped by 35 percent.
Looking at the first four months of 2024, the average occupancy rate went up by 8.4 percentage points year-on-year to 84.5 percent and the total number of guests grew by 29.8 percent to 4,939,000, compared to the same four-month period in 2023.
