The Macau Land and Urban Construction Bureau (DSSCU) said Tuesday that 12 hotels were under construction during the first quarter of the year, bringing a combined future capacity of 3,934 new rooms.
According to information from the DSSCU, there were also eight hotels awaiting development approval and offering a further 1,308 rooms, taking the total number of new hotels potentially coming online to 20 and the number of rooms to 5,242. The 12 under construction feature a combined gross floor area of 221,113 square meters.
Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) figures show that as of February this year, there were 126 hotel establishments in Macau, an increase of six year-on-year, with a capacity of around 39,000 rooms.
Among the hotel establishments, 35 of them are 5-star hotels, 19 are 4-star, 17 are 3-star and 22 are 2-star, while the remaining are “economical accommodation establishments”.
Among the major projects to come online recently are the Epic Tower at Melco Resorts & Entertainment’s Studio City Phase 2 – which opened on 6 April with 338 suites – while Galaxy Macau Phase 3 is due to start opening facilities in the coming months. These will include the all-suite Raffles at Galaxy Macau and the Galaxy International Convention Center, which incorporates the Andaz Macau hotel.
