{"id":33063,"date":"2022-08-30T03:20:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T06:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=33063"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:24:49","slug":"macau-hotel-occupancy-plunged-55-6-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-hotel-occupancy-plunged-55-6-in-july","title":{"rendered":"Macau hotel occupancy plunged 55.6% in July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Occupancy rates collapsed amid the last Covid-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The\u00a0<strong>Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)\u00a0<\/strong>has revealed what was already a given &#8211; that Macau hotel occupancy plunged amid the Covid-19 outbreak last month. <strong>Hotel occupancy fell 55.6 per cent year-on-year to 309,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Occupancy comprised 238,000 mainland Chinese tourists and 51,000 domestic tourists, down 57.1 per cent and 52.1 per cent respectively. The average length of stay increased by 0.4 nights to 2.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first seven months of 2022, the number of local tourists dropped by 44.6 per cent year-on-year to 18,000. The number of Macau residents booking outbound services such as transportation, accommodation and sightseeing through travel agencies dropped by 95.9 per cent to 900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 115 hotels offered accommodation services to the public in July 2022; the number of available rooms decreased by 10.9 per cent year-over-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The DSEC\u00a0<\/strong>has previously reported that\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-down-98-8-in-july\" target=\"_blank\">9,759 tourists arrived in Macau in July<\/a>. The figure was down 97.4 per cent\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-down-36-6-in-june\" target=\"_blank\">month-on-month<\/a>\u00a0and 98.8 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The numbers were severely impacted by the latest outbreak of Covid-19 cases in Macau, which&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/a-new-outbreak-of-covid-19-cases-in-macau-puts-casinos-on-alert\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">started on June 19<\/a>&nbsp;and took more than a month for the authorities to bring under control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-plunges-to-lowest-monthly-tally-since-2003\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue<\/a><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>was down<strong>&nbsp;83.9 per cent&nbsp;<\/strong>month-on-month from MOP2.48bn to MOP398m (US$49.2m). The figure was down 95.3 per cent when compared to July 2021 and was the lowest since 2003, when city authorities began publishing monthly figures. Macau\u2019s GGR for the&nbsp;<strong>first seven months of 2022&nbsp;<\/strong>combined stands at MOP26.6bn (US$3.29bn), down 53.6 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occupancy rates collapsed amid the last Covid-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26451,"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 experienced a severe economic downturn in July 2022 due to a COVID-19 outbreak, leading to a 55.6% year-on-year plunge in hotel occupancy and an 83.9% month-on-month decrease in Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) to MOP398m (US$49.2m). This GGR figure represents the lowest since 2003, significantly impacting the region's gaming and tourism sectors and reflecting broader market instability.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, Mainland China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau GGR Recovery?","query":"What are the projected timelines and key indicators for a significant recovery in Macau's GGR and tourism sector, considering the historical impact of similar outbreaks and current policy trajectories?"},{"label":"Operator Financial Impact?","query":"How will the sustained low GGR and occupancy rates in Macau impact the Q3 and Q4 2022 financial performance and liquidity positions of major concessionaires?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-33063","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\/33063","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=33063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33083,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33063\/revisions\/33083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}