{"id":777002791,"date":"2023-02-27T13:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T16:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777002791"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:17:09","slug":"macau-hotel-occupancy-hits-74-per-cent-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-hotel-occupancy-hits-74-per-cent-in-january","title":{"rendered":"Macau hotel occupancy hits 74 per cent in January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The overall occupancy rate was up 25.4 percentage points year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The&nbsp;<strong>Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)&nbsp;<\/strong>has reported that Macau\u2019s average hotel occupancy rate rose by 25.4 percentage points year-on-year to 74 per cent in January. <strong>Three-star hotels <\/strong>recorded the highest rate at 79 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four-star hotels saw 70.1 per cent occupancy and five-star properties 73.9 per cent. The average room rate rose from MOP832 to MOP1,180, up 41.8 per cent year-over-year, with four-star hotels reporting the highest rise of 81.2 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-101-3-in-january\" target=\"_blank\">1.40 million visitors arrived in Macau in January<\/a>. That\u2019s an increase of 101.3 per cent when compared to last year and 259 per cent on month-on-month terms. The increase was put down to the easing of anti-epidemic measures related to Covid-19 as well as the Chinese New Year holiday period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-records-451047-tourist-arrivals-during-chinese-new-year\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Chinese New Year holiday<\/a>, Macau received 451,047 visitor arrivals, with a daily average of 64,435 and the busiest day reaching 90,391. This was the highest number of visitors since early 2020, before the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For full-year 2022,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-down-26-in-2022\" target=\"_blank\">Macau recorded 5.70 million visitor arrivals<\/a>. The number was down 26 per cent year-on-year and the lowest since 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overall occupancy rate was up 25.4 percentage points year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18164,"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 tourism sector demonstrated a significant rebound in January, with hotel occupancy rates rising 25.4 percentage points year-on-year to 74% and average room rates increasing 41.8%. Visitor arrivals surged over 100% year-on-year to nearly 1.40 million, driven by the easing of anti-epidemic measures and the Chinese New Year holiday, marking the highest visitor count since early 2020.","focusai_entities":"DSEC","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.98), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.78), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Correlation?","query":"What is the projected correlation between this surge in visitor arrivals and hotel occupancy with Macau's Q1 2023 Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR), particularly across the mass market and premium mass segments?"},{"label":"Operational Scalability?","query":"How are integrated resort operators in Macau scaling their non-gaming and gaming operational capacities, including staffing and amenity availability, to sustain this increased visitor volume and capitalize on the recovery momentum?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777002791","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\/777002791","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=777002791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777002819,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002791\/revisions\/777002819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777002791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777002791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777002791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}