Package tours and hotel occupancy rate for the first three quarters of 2026

MACAU, October 30 - Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotel establishments stood at 90.7% in the first three quarters of 2026, an uplift of 1.5 percentage points year-on-year. The rates for 5-star (93.5%) and 4-star hotels (88.5%) showed respective year-on-year growth of 0.9 percentage points and 4.9 percentage points, whereas the rate for 3-star hotels (85.2%) dropped by 0.1 percentage point.

Number of guests of hotel establishments edged down by 0.9% year-on-year to 10,810,000 in the first three quarters; those from the Chinese mainland (7,954,000) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (1,304,000) decreased by 1.9% and 2.6% respectively. Meanwhile, international guests (939,000) rose by 10.0% year-on-year; among them, those from the Republic of Korea (273,000), Thailand (77,000) and India (67,000) went up by 9.7%, 33.6% and 16.4% respectively, while those from Japan (66,000) and Malaysia (55,000) fell by 9.0% and 9.6% respectively.

In the first three quarters, number of inbound package tour visitors totalled 1,252,000, down by 9.3% year-on-year. Tour visitors from the Chinese mainland dropped by 10.6% year-on-year to 1,037,000.

In September this year, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotel establishments was 88.0%, up by 3.6 percentage points year-on-year. Number of guests increased by 3.9% year-on-year to 1,160,000, of which international guests (100,000) rose by 6.4%. A total of 86,000 inbound package tour visitors were recorded in September, down by 19.9% year-on-year.

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