{"id":777012029,"date":"2023-12-20T09:53:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T12:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777012029"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:32:08","slug":"macau-expects-hotel-occupancy-rate-of-up-to-90-for-christmas-and-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-expects-hotel-occupancy-rate-of-up-to-90-for-christmas-and-new-year","title":{"rendered":"Macau expects hotel occupancy rate of up to 90% for Christmas and New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A large number of tourists are expected to visit Macau for the festive season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The hospitality industry expects hotel occupancy rates to reach <strong>up to 90 per cent <\/strong>during the Christmas and New Year holidays. Cheung Kin Chung, president of the <strong>Macau Hoteliers and Innkeepers Association<\/strong> told TDM hotels were already more than 60 per cent booked. Cheung said he believed that spending would rise as festive events launch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau\u2019s average hotel occupancy rate for the first 10 months of the year was 80.9 per cent, according to official figures. Daily arrivals have averaged around 76,000 but are expected to reach around 100,000 during the Christmas and New Year period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ubs-predicts-improvement-in-macau-casino-ggr-in-late-december\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ubs-predicts-improvement-in-macau-casino-ggr-in-late-december\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UBS predicts improvement in Macau casino GGR in late December<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of tourists are expected to visit Macau for the festive season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":26708,"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 hospitality sector anticipates hotel occupancy rates reaching up to 90% during the Christmas and New Year holidays, with daily tourist arrivals projected to surge to 100,000. This significant increase in visitation is expected to drive elevated spending, positively impacting the region's gaming and leisure economy, as corroborated by UBS's GGR improvement predictions.","focusai_entities":"Cheung Kin Chung, Macau Hoteliers and Innkeepers Association, TDM, UBS","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Projected GGR Uplift?","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau operators during this festive period, factoring in the anticipated increase in tourist spending and segment mix across gaming verticals?"},{"label":"Operational Capacity Adjustments?","query":"How are Macau's integrated resort operators adjusting their staffing and operational capacities to manage the expected 100,000 daily arrivals and optimize non-gaming revenue streams across all hospitality verticals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-777012029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012029","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777012029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012041,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012029\/revisions\/777012041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777012029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}