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Macau.- The\u00a0Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)\u00a0<\/strong>has reported that Macau\u2019s average hotel occupancy rate rose by 46.3 percentage points to 77 per cent in March. The number of guests rose by 164.4 per cent year-on-year to 972,000<\/strong> with most visitors coming from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The number of accommodation establishments rose to 126, an increase of 6 year-on-year, with the number of available guest rooms increasing by 0.7 per cent to 39,000. The rise in occupancy rates was not limited to 5-star hotels. The 5-star hotel occupancy rate increased by 50.2 percentage points but 2-star hotel rates rose by 46.2 percentage points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For the first quarter of 2023, the hotel industry saw a year-on-year increase of 33.9 percentage points in the average occupancy rate of guest rooms, rising to 74.7 per cent. The number of guests rose by 96.3 per cent year-on-year to 2,699,000. However, their average length of stay fell slightly by 0.2 nights to 1.7 nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The number of visiting tourists\u00a0increased by 163.7 per cent year-on-year to 4,948,358<\/a>. Same-day visitors rose 93.1 per cent year-on-year, while overnight visitors increased by 287.6 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some 1,956,867 visitors\u00a0arrived in Macau in March<\/a>. That\u2019s an increase of 271.4 per cent when compared to last year and 22.8 per cent\u00a0on month-on-month terms<\/a>. Overnight tourists and same-day tourists increased by 522.7 per cent and 164.5 per cent year-on-year respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mainland Chinese visitors grew by 64.9 per cent in year-on-year terms to 1,242,358. Visitors from the Greater Bay Area increased by 79.0 per cent to 563,083 and those from Hong Kong and Taiwan grew by 1077.2 per cent and 447.5 per cent respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The overall occupancy rate was up 46.3 percentage points year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21776,"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 experienced a significant resurgence in March and Q1 2023, with average hotel occupancy rates reaching 77% and 74.7% respectively, driven by a substantial increase in visitor arrivals from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. This robust recovery in visitor volume and accommodation utilization signals a positive trajectory for the region's integrated resorts and gaming operators, potentially impacting GGR and non-gaming revenue streams.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Projections","query":"What are the revised GGR projections for Macau's integrated resorts in Q2 2023, factoring in the sustained growth in visitor arrivals and hotel occupancy rates?"},{"label":"Visitor Spend Analysis","query":"How does the observed decrease in average length of stay, despite increased visitor volume, impact the per-visitor spend and overall NGR potential for Macau's gaming operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777004707","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\/777004707","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=777004707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777004715,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004707\/revisions\/777004715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}