Macau Visitor Arrivals and Occupancy Rate Drop in First Half

Macau hotels and inns provided 30,000 rooms in the first half of the year

According to data from the Statistical Information System of Macau (DSEC) in the first 6 months of the year, the total number of hotel guests reached 4.9 million, an increase of 1.4 per cent. Visitors in groups increased 1.3 per cent to 4,031,000. Hotel guests reached 4,908,000, decreasing 7.6 per cent. The average occupancy rate stood at 78.1 per cent, a decrease of 7.8 per cent. For the first six months of the year, visitor arrivals dropped by 3.5 per cent.

Overnight visitors accounted for 69.6 per cent, down 0.7 per cent. Visitors on package tours declined by 17.5 per cent to 707,000 in June. Hotels and inns welcomed 859,000 guests, a decrease of 1.9 per cent.

Some 102 hotels and inns provided 30,000 guestrooms as at the end of June, an increase of 7.2 per cent, with 5-star hotels providing 20,000 guestrooms and over 66.6 per cent of the total. The average stay of guests was 1.4 nights, while the average occupancy rate of hotels and inns was 73.9 per cent.

Visitor arrivals drop in first half

In the first half of the year, visitor arrivals totalled 14,756,499, down by 3.5 per cent year-on-year. Overnight visitors decreased by 6.6 per cent to 6,616,357, while same-day visitors dropped by 0.7 per cent to 8,140,142, between January and June. Visitors from Mainland China (9,784,792) and Hong Kong (3,155,152) decreased by 4.2 per cent and 0.3 per cent, respectively, year-on-year, while visitors from the Republic of Korea (293,563) increased by 9.6 per cent, and those from Taiwan China(465,497) held stable as the same period of 2014. Moreover, long-haul visitors from the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom posted a year-on-year decrease.