Macau hotel occupancy reaches 89.8% in May
The average occupancy rate of hotel establishments was up 1.8 percentage points from a year earlier.
Macau.- The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) has reported that the average hotel occupancy rate in Macau was 89.8 per cent in May. That’s a rise of 1.8 points year-on-year.
The rates for 5-star (92.8 per cent) and 4-star hotels (87.7 per cent) saw respective year-on-year growth of 1.1 and 6.9 percentage points, whereas the rate for 3-star hotels (83.8 per cent) dropped by 0.6 points.
Nevertheless, the number of guests was down by 4.5 per cent year-on-year to 1,174,000. Those from the Chinese mainland (847,000) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (148,000) decreased by 6.2 per cent and 8.6 per cent, respectively.
International guests (117,000) increased by 16.1 per cent year-on-year. Those from the Republic of Korea (31,000), India (12,000), Thailand (8,000) and Malaysia (7,000) were up by 15.2 per cent, 9.9 per cent, 20.6 per cent and 1.6 per cent respectively, while those from Japan (8,000) fell by 5.7 per cent.
The number of inbound package tour visitors totalled 141,000, up by 2.5 per cent year-on-year. Tour visitors from the Chinese mainland rose by 6 per cent year-on-year to 115,000.
In the first five months of 2026, the average occupancy rate was 91.4 per cent, up by 2.2 percentage points year-on-year. The number of guests was up by 0.3 per cent year-on-year to 6,023,000, of which international guests (569,000) rose by 14.3 per cent. There were 759,000 inbound package tour visitors, down by 12.1 per cent, while international tour visitors grew by 2.9 per cent to 102,000.
The number of visitor arrivals to Macau in May increased by 3.4 per cent year-on-year to 3,487,994. Same-day visitors (2,149,311) rose by 7.9 per cent year-on-year, while overnight visitors (1,338,683) dropped by 3 per cent.
