{"id":27720,"date":"2022-03-02T06:49:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T09:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=27720"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:53:24","slug":"macau-occupancy-rate-down-10-8-percentage-points-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-occupancy-rate-down-10-8-percentage-points-in-january","title":{"rendered":"Macau occupancy rate down 10.8 percentage points in January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Macau Statistics and Census Bureau has reported that the city\u2019s average hotel occupancy rate declined 10.8 percentage points month-on-month to 44 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) has reported that the average<strong>\u00a0hotel occupancy rate<\/strong> in Macau reached <strong>44 per cent<\/strong> in January. That&#8217;s a drop of 10.8 percentage points from December, but was 3.7 points higher than January 2021. The number of overnight visitors dropped 38.1 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DSEC reported that\u00a0the number of hotel guests increased by 14.2 per cent year-on-year to 515,000, with 418,000 from mainland China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mainland China continues to be the only country to have a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/covid-19-vaccine-passports-could-speed-up-macau-tourism-recovery\" target=\"_blank\">largely quarantine-free travel bubble<\/a>\u00a0with Macau. Those crossing the land border from China must present a Covid-19 test taken no more than 48 hours prior. For air arrival, the test must be 7-days prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average room occupancy rate in 2021 was 50 per cent, an increase of 21.4 points from 2020. The DSEC has reported that\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-30-7-in-2021\" target=\"_blank\">Macau registered 7.71m visitor arrivals in 2021<\/a>, up 30.7 per cent year-on-year but down 80.0 per cent when compared to pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Macau Statistics and Census Bureau has reported that the city\u2019s average hotel occupancy rate declined 10.8 percentage points month-on-month to 44 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's average hotel occupancy rate declined 10.8 percentage points month-on-month to 44% in January, despite a year-on-year increase in hotel guests, predominantly from mainland China. This data underscores the continued volatility in visitor arrivals, which remain 80% below pre-pandemic levels, posing ongoing challenges for the region's integrated resorts and gaming operators.","focusai_entities":"Macau Statistics and Census Bureau","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.95), journalist_researcher (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Q1 GGR Impact?","query":"What is the projected impact of these January hotel occupancy and visitor metrics on the Q1 Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for Macau's concessionaires, particularly across the VIP and mass market segments?"},{"label":"Travel Policy Influence?","query":"How do the current quarantine-free travel bubble and testing protocols with Mainland China influence the elasticity of demand for premium mass and high-roller visitation, and what are the implications for future policy adjustments?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-27720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27728,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27720\/revisions\/27728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}