The figure was up 49.8 per cent in year-on-year terms but still short of the 92.4 per cent occupancy seen in May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- The Macau Hotel Association <\/strong>has released the figures for hotel occupancy rates for May. The average daily rate for a five-star hotel room reached 85.1 per cent. That’s a rise of 49.8 per cent year-on-year but short of the 92.4 per cent in May 2019 pre-pandemic. The average room tariff was MOP1,482.4 (US$183.8), an increase from previous months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For Macau’s three-to-five-star hotels as a whole, the average room tariff in May reached MOP1,317.1, a 69.8 per cent increase compared to last year. This figure represents 96 per cent of the average rate recorded in May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The occupancy rate for the three-to-five-star category was 84.8 per cent. This represents a 47.8 per cent year-on-year growth, although it is still lower than the 91.7 per cent occupancy rate observed in May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Over the first five months of 2023, the average room rate for three-to five-star hotels in Macau was MOP1,235.3, a 49.5 per cent increase compared to the same period last year. The average occupancy rate was 80.6 per cent across all hotel categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) <\/strong>reported that 2,213,807 visitors arrived in Macau in May. That\u2019s an increase of 268.5 per cent when compared to last year but down 2.6 per cent on month-on-month terms<\/a>. May\u2019s figure represented 65 per cent of the tourist arrivals recorded in May 2019, prior to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n