{"id":777038404,"date":"2026-02-25T08:19:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777038404"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:05:23","slug":"macau-hotel-occupancy-rate-exceeds-95-during-chinese-new-year-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-hotel-occupancy-rate-exceeds-95-during-chinese-new-year-break","title":{"rendered":"Macau hotel occupancy rate exceeds 95% during Chinese New Year break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The average occupancy rate was slightly up compared with 2025 figures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The <strong>Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO)<\/strong> has reported that the average hotel occupancy rate during the Chinese New Year period reached <strong>95.6 per cent<\/strong>, slightly higher than the <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-new-year-draws-1-31-million-visitors-to-macau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">95 per cent<\/a> reported in 2025. The highest occupancy rate was seen on February 20 at 99.2 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Public Security Police Force (PSP)<\/strong>\u00a0reported that 1.55 million visitors entered Macau over the holiday period from February 15 to February 23. The city received an average of nearly 172,699 visitors per day and saw three consecutive days of more than 200,000 arrivals. Thursday, February 19, saw an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-posts-record-visitor-tally-amid-chinese-new-year-surge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all-time record<\/a>\u00a0of 227,943 entries. Most tourists entered Macau via the Border Gate checkpoint, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, and the Hengqin checkpoint.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of visitor origin, 76 per cent were from Mainland China (about 1,035,000, a daily average of 129,000), while 253,000 came from Hong Kong (a daily average of nearly 32,000). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"see-also-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/mgmcasino-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-article__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href='https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/mgm-china-reports-sustained-demand-in-macau-ahead-of-chinese-new-year'>MGM China reports sustained demand in Macau ahead of Chinese New Year<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average occupancy rate was slightly up compared with 2025 figures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777034484,"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 reported a robust 95.6% average hotel occupancy rate during the Chinese New Year period, slightly exceeding 2025 figures, with a peak of 99.2%. The city welcomed 1.55 million visitors, averaging nearly 172,699 daily, with Mainland China accounting for 76% of arrivals, indicating strong tourism recovery and potential GGR uplift for integrated resorts.","focusai_entities":"Macau Government Tourist Office, Public Security Police Force, MGM China","focusai_location":"Macau, Mainland China, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis?","query":"What is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) uplift for Macau's integrated resorts, specifically for the mass market segment, given the reported visitor volumes and hotel occupancy rates during Chinese New Year?"},{"label":"Operational Capacity Assessment?","query":"How are Macau's integrated resort operators adjusting their staffing, F&B, and entertainment offerings to sustain high service levels and capitalize on the increased visitor demand beyond the Chinese New Year period?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[227,1619,257],"class_list":["post-777038404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-china","tag-hong-kong","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777038404","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=777038404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777038404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777038411,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777038404\/revisions\/777038411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777034484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777038404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777038404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777038404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}