April four and five star hotel occupancy over 91pct in Macau

At Macau, the occupancy rate at hotels and guesthouses was up 7.6 percent year-on-year for April, with an average speed of 88.9% and more than 1.1 million guests. Included in the figure is the occupancy rate of 91.9 percent in the autonomous region’s four and five-star hotels, a rise of 2.1 percent from the same time this past year. A 2.8 percent increase was seen in the overall occupancy rate for April, according to a Wednesday report from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), according to a May 31, 2018 report from Interior Asian Gaming.

By January through April this year, both local guesthouses and hotels have seen more than 4.5 million guests, which can be a rise of 8.8 percent year-on-year whereas the 88.9 percent occupancy rate was up 4.7 percent year-on-year.

Climbed to the growth, the number of guestrooms grew by 6 per cent from the same time last year to 39,000 while hotel rooms with five-star rose by 7.9 per cent to 24,000, which includes 61.2 percent of their total.

The information outlet also reports that DSEC also communicated that at Macau in April, the number of people who obtained bundle excursions swelled by 12.9 percent year-on-year and 6.2% month-on-month.

Other significant increases have been seen in package tour people from Taiwan, the Republic of Korea, and Mainland China, that observed year-on-year surges of 57.5 percent, 27.8 percent and 12.2 percent, respectively.

Year-on-year package trip people from January through April this year increased 20.1 percent and totaled 2.8 million, according to the report.