Macao: Average occupancy rate of hotel establishments' guest rooms rose 1.5 percentage points year-on-year to 90.7% in the first three quarters.

Macao: Average occupancy rate of hotel establishments' guest rooms rose 1.5 percentage points year-on-year to 90.7% in the first three quarters. According to data from the Statistics and Census Service of Macao, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms in hotel establishments rose 1.5 percentage points year-on-year to 90.7% in the first three quarters of 2026. Among them, the occupancy rates of five-star (93.5%) and four-star (88.5%) hotels increased by 0.9 and 4.9 percentage points respectively, while the occupancy rate of three-star hotels (85.2%) fell 0.1 percentage point. In the first three quarters of this year, the number of guests staying in hotel establishments edged down 0.9% year-on-year to 10.810 million; guests from Mainland China (7.954 million) and the Hong Kong SAR of China (1.304 million) decreased by 1.9% and 2.6% respectively; international guests (939,000) increased 10.0% year-on-year, among which guests from South Korea (273,000), Thailand (77,000), and India (67,000) increased by 9.7%, 33.6%, and 16.4% respectively, while guests from Japan (66,000) and Malaysia (55,000) decreased by 9.0% and 9.6% respectively. In the first three quarters, inbound visitors on package tours totaled 1.252 million, down 9.3% year-on-year; package tour visitors from Mainland China decreased 10.6% to 1.037 million. In September of this year, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms in hotel establishments rose 3.6 percentage points year-on-year to 88.0%, and the number of guests increased 3.9% to 1.160 million; international guests totaled 100,000, an increase of 6.4%. On the other hand, the total number of inbound visitors on package tours in September fell 19.9% year-on-year to 86,000.