Macao hotels set a new guest record in 2025, with 14.56 million stays recorded across 147 properties, according to figures from the Statistics and Census Service (known by its Portuguese initials DSEC). This surpassed the previous record, set in 2024, by 1 percent.
The previous record stood at 14.42 million hotel guests, achieved in 2024, when the city had 146 hotels in operation. The growth came alongside an expansion in room supply, with the total number of available guestrooms rising by 4.9 percent year-on-year, to 45,000.
Overall hotel occupancy across 2025 increased by 3.1 percent year-on-year, to 89.4 percent, while guests’ average length of stay remained unchanged at 1.7 nights for the year.
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The average occupancy rate of five-star hotels climbed to 92.9 percent, up 4.4 percentage points year-on-year. Four-star hotels recorded an occupancy rate of 83.8 percent, an increase of 1.8 percentage points, while the rate for three-star hotels rose 1.2 percentage points to 85 percent.
In terms of source markets, guests from the Chinese mainland increased by 1.4 percent to 10.74 million. The number of international guests rose by 11.8 percent to 1.24 million, with visitors from South Korea (350,000), Japan (102,000), Malaysia (93,000) and Thailand (88,000) growing by 9.3 percent, 25.5 percent, 6.5 percent and 33.4 percent respectively. Meanwhile, guests from Hong Kong fell by 4.1 percent to 1.77 million.
For December 2025 alone, the average hotel occupancy rate stood at 90.4 percent, up 1.2 percentage points year-on-year. The number of guests increased by 5.8 percent to 1.25 million, while the average length of stay edged up by 0.1 night to 1.7 nights.
