{"id":777002341,"date":"2023-02-13T14:42:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T17:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777002341"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:42:44","slug":"mgto-up-to-6-5-of-macau-hotel-rooms-out-of-use-due-to-staff-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/mgto-up-to-6-5-of-macau-hotel-rooms-out-of-use-due-to-staff-shortage","title":{"rendered":"MGTO: up to 6.5% of Macau hotel rooms out of use due to staff shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are between 2,000 and 3,000 MGTO-licensed rooms out of use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-&nbsp;<strong>Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/strong>, director of Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), said on Friday (February 10) that up to 6.5 per cent of Macau&#8217;s hotel rooms are currently unavailable due to <strong>staff shortages<\/strong>.&nbsp;She said 2,000 to 3,000 out of 46,000 MGTO-licensed rooms are out of use&nbsp;due to shortages, particularly for housekeeping staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of non-resident workers in Macau&#8217;s gaming sector fell by nearly half between the end of January 2020 and the end of October 2022, dropping from 35,288 to 18,514. Now following the opening of travel with China, Macau is receiving around 48,000 visitors daily despite the period after Chinese New Year being considered the low season. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-package-tours-from-mainland-china-to-resume\" target=\"_blank\">Package tours<\/a> were reauthorised on February 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are between 2,000 and 3,000 MGTO-licensed rooms out of use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":22428,"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 is experiencing significant hotel room unavailability, with 2,000-3,000 MGTO-licensed rooms (up to 6.5% of total inventory) out of use due to persistent staff shortages, particularly in housekeeping. This operational constraint emerges as Macau sees a resurgence in daily visitors post-travel reopening with China, despite a nearly 50% reduction in non-resident gaming sector workers since early 2020.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, MGTO, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Staffing Strategy","query":"What specific policy initiatives are the Macau SAR government and integrated resort operators implementing to mitigate the acute labor shortages impacting hotel operational capacity and GGR potential?"},{"label":"GGR Impact","query":"How do current hotel room unavailability rates, driven by staffing constraints, quantitatively impact the projected GGR and NGR recovery trajectory for Macau's gaming verticals in the short to medium term?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777002341","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\/777002341","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=777002341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777002375,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002341\/revisions\/777002375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777002341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777002341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777002341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}