Macau’s hotel occupancy rate for August rose by 2.8 percentage points year-on-year to 91.3%, with the number of guests also recovering to 99.7% of the same month in 2019.
According to data from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), a total of 144 hotel were providing accommodation services to the public at the end of August 2024, an increase of eight year-on-year, with the number of rooms available remaining at 45,000 rooms.
The occupancy rate of five-star hotels was 93.4%, an increase of 2.8 percentage points year-on-year, while the occupancy rate of three-star hotels also exceeded 90%, up 9.5 percentage points to 90.8%.
And although total guests declined by 3.8% year-on-year to 1.26 million, this was still back to 99.7% of August 2019. These included 73,000 international, up 21% year-on-year, of which 26,000 were from South Korea, up 40.3% year-on-year.
The average length of stay was maintained at 1.6 nights year-on-year, representing an increase of 0.1 nights compared with the same period in 2019.
The average hotel occupancy rate in the first eight months of this year increased by 4.6 percentage points year-on-year to 85.5%. Occupants increased by 12.9% to 9.77 million, with the average length of stay remaining unchanged at 1.7 nights.
The increase in hotel occupancy in August was attributable to a strong increase in visitor arrivals. Macau’s visitor arrivals reached 3,651,731 in August, up 13.3% year-on-year and 0.8% over the same month in 2019.