Macau’s tourism recovery is showing no sign of slowing down with preliminary figures revealing the city’s hotel occupancy rate reached 92.2% in July – soaring above the 84.3% occupancy rate recorded in June.
The Macao Government Tourism Office issued a notice on Wednesday outlining a raft of figures from recent weeks, with July representing the highest hotel occupancy rate since the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, in June, the number of hotel guests had exceeded 36,000 to hit 102.2% of June 2019 numbers, aided by greater hotel room supply.
The MGTO also highlighted the return of international tourists, with an average of 7,393 foreign arrivals per day in July. This figure, they added, had since grown by a further 5% between 1 and 17 August according to the latest provisional data, “reflecting that Macau’s tourist structure is gradually developing towards a diversified direction and has rich ‘tourism +’ elements to attract different groups of tourists.”
Macau’s top tourism source markets include the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and the United States.
“In response to the gradual increase in tourists from various countries, MGTO continues to implement the ‘Macao Courtesy Campaign’ to further improve the quality of tourism services in Macau, encourage residents and the industry to treat guests with politeness, promote the image of Macau as a well-mannered city, and consolidate its status as a world centre of tourism and leisure,” the MGTO explained.
It added that Macau welcomed 139,000 visitor arrivals on 12 August, representing the highest single-day visitor arrivals of 2023 and highest in three-and-a-half years.
