The average hotel occupancy rate in Macao rose by 5.1 percentage points year-on-year to 89.1 percent in the first half of 2025, according to information from the Statistics and Census Service (known by the Portuguese initials DSEC).
The rates for 5-star (92.5 percent), 4-star (83.1 percent) and 3-star hotels (85.4 percent) showed respective growth of 6.6 percentage points, 2.7 percentage points and 4.4 percentage points.
The total number of available guest rooms dropped by 3.8 percent to 45,000 and the number of guests decreased by 1 percent year-on-year to 7,202,000 in the first half year. The average length of stay remained at 1.7 nights.
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The number of guests from the Chinese mainland (5,349,000) rose by 0.8 percent, while those from Hong Kong (879,000) fell by 8.5 percent.
International guests (589,000) grew by 8.6 percent year-on-year. Of those, visitors from the Republic of Korea (169,000), Japan (48,000), Malaysia (44,000) and India (41,000) went up by 13.3 percent, 16.1 percent, 7.3 percent and 5.2 percent respectively.
For the month of June, the average hotel occupancy rate stood at 88.4 percent, up by 5.6 percentage points year-on-year. The number of guests increased by 4.7 percent year-on-year to 1,197,000, while the average length of stay remained at 1.6 nights.
