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Macau’s average occupancy rate for hotels and guest houses for December reached 53.1 percent, the highest level since January 2020, when it stood at 79.4 percent according to Macua government data, before the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic took hold. December did however have fewer hotel rooms in operation – a total of 35,100, versus about 39,000 in January 2020. The difference was due to factors including that some establishments this December were being used for medical quarantine of people seeking to enter Macau. The December average occupancy level was a 9.2-percentage point improve...

2021-01-28 16:36:08 GMT2021-01-29 00:36:08(Beijing Time) Xinhua English MACAO, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Macao's hospitality industry, a pillar industry of the special administrative region (SAR), has been striving to recover despite the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. A report released Thursday by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) showed that the number of guests checking into Macao's hotels and guesthouses in December 2020 reached 579,000, an increase of 22.4 percent from the previous month. The average occupancy rate of guest rooms in December last year was 53.1 percent, represen...

Macau could see on average per day, a lower visitor-arrival tally during the upcoming February Chinese New Year break, when compared to the Christmas-holiday daily average in the December 23 to 27 period inclusive, suggested the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) director, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, in comments to local media on Saturday. “We have estimated that on average, the [daily] visitor arrivals for this year’s Chinese New Year break could turn out to be a bit weaker than for the Christmas holiday period,” said the MGTO director. Macau’s daily average visitor arrival...

2021-01-14 13:35:55 GMT2021-01-14 21:35:55(Beijing Time) Xinhua English MACAO, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Macao's average Tourist Price Index (TPI) for 2020 went down by 8.2 percent year on year to 122.88, the special administrative region's statistics service said on Thursday. The decrease was largely attributable to a marked year-on-year drop in hotel room rates amid the COVID-19 pandemic, lower charges for restaurant services, as well as reduced prices of clothing and local food products. However, higher prices of jewelry and rising airfares partially offset the decrease, the Statistics an...

A senior official representing the health authority in mainland China’s Guangdong, has called on the public in the province of more than 100 million people, to spend their February Chinese New Year (CNY) break within its boundaries, as a precaution against the risk of spreading Covid-19. Visitors from Guangdong province made up nearly 60 percent of Macau’s mainland Chinese visitors for the first eleven months of 2020, according to latest data available from Macau’s Statistics and Census Service. During January to November, Macau had nearly 2.4 million visitor arrivals from Guangdong, re...