Government of Macao Special Administrative Region Statistics and Census Service
TOURISM INDICATORS
MAY 2005
No. 5
Official Statistics. Reproduction of these data is allowed provided the source is quoted.
Statistics and Census Service
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PACKAGE TOUR AND HOTEL OCCUPANCY RATE
PACKAGE TOUR
In May 2005, number of visitors arrived in Macao in package tours totalled 215,340, up14.0% over May 2004. These visitors mainly came from Mainland China (159,604), Taiwan, China (23,044) and Hong Kong (8,707). In the first five months, visitor arrivals in package tours rose 7.6% over the same period of 2004 to 1,043,939.
Number of Macao residents travelling in package tours surged 62.4% year-on-year to 24,550 in May 2005.
Mainland China, Thailand and Taiwan, China were the three more popular tour itineraries, which accounted for 83.9%, 3.8% and 3.5% of the total respectively. In the first five months of 2005, Macao residents travelling in package tours increased 57.9% over the same period of 2004.
Meanwhile, 24,773 Macao residents travelled under own arrangements with the assistance of travel agencies, an increase of 11.1% over May 2004; Mainland China (32.1%), Taiwan, China (22.9%) and Hong Kong (18.1%) were the major destinations. In the first five months of 2005, Macao residents travelling under such arrangements decreased 1.4% compared with the corresponding period of 2004.
HOTEL OCCUPANCY RATE
In May 2005, the average hotel occupancy rate was 67.0%, a year-on-year decrease of 4.1 percentage points; the highest occupancy rate was in 3-star hotels, at 76.4%. The average length of stay of hotel guests was 1.18 nights, a decrease of 0.01 night over May 2004.
At the end of May 2005, there were 10,454 rooms available in hotels and similar establishments, an increase of 1,141 rooms (12.3%) compared with the same month of 2004.
In May 2005, a total of 329,184 guests checked into hotels and similar establishments in Macao, an increase of 4.6% over May 2004. The majority of the guests came from Mainland China (55.7%), Hong Kong (27.9%) and Taiwan, China (3.3%). In the first five months of 2005, number of hotel guests showed a marginal increase of 0.9% to 1,569,712 over the same period of 2004.
PRINCIPAL STATISTICS OF HOTELS
Guests Occupancy rate
Number Average length of stay (nights) Classification of
establishments
May 2005
%
Differencea (Percentage
points)
Jan.- May 2005
%
Differencea (Percentage
points)
May 2005
Rate of Changea
%
May 2005
Differencea
Total 67.03 -4.08 66.24 -5.30 329 184 4.65 1.18 -0.01
Hotels 68.31 -4.99 67.62 -6.15 319 200 4.57 1.18 -0.01
5-star hotels 69.09 -5.78 68.91 -3.34 84 337 -7.70 1.36 -0.12
4-star hotels 66.91 -6.59 65.79 -9.37 124 680 7.69 1.12 0.07
3-star hotels 76.41 -2.74 74.38 -9.07 89 765 17.04 1.09 0.01
2-star hotels 49.30 -3.07 52.56 -0.98 20 418 -4.60 1.14 -0.01
Guest-houses 44.68 5.88 42.79 3.86 9 984 7.16 1.27 0.04
a Comparison with the same period of previous year
