TOURISM INDICATORS

Government of Macao Special Administrative Region Statistics and Census Service

TOURISM INDICATORS

May 2007

No. 5

Official Statistics. Reproduction of these data is allowed provided the source is quoted.

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PACKAGE TOUR AND HOTEL OCCUPANCY RATE

Visitor arrivals in package tours totalled 289,226 in May 2007, up by 21.3% year-on-year. Visitors mainly came from Mainland China (189,086), Taiwan, China (32,630) and Hong Kong (22,012). In the first five months of 2007, visitor arrivals in package tours surged by 36.5% over the same period of 2006 to 1,698,338.

In May, the number of Macao residents travelling in package tours dropped by 32.7% year-on-year to 13,370. Mainland China, Thailand, and Japan were the three most popular tour itineraries, which accounted for 70.5%, 8.8% and 5.1% of the total respectively. In the first five months of 2007, the number of Macao residents travelling in the package tours dropped by 28.8% over the same period of 2006 to 77,483.

Meanwhile, 24,098 residents travelled under own arrangements using services provided by travel agencies, a decrease of 8.7% over May 2006. Hong Kong (37.6%), Mainland China (30.8%) and Taiwan, China (14.2%) were the major destinations. In the first five months of 2007, the number of Macao residents travelled under such arrangements dropped by 12.8% compared with the corresponding period of 2006 to 125,018.

HOTEL OCCUPANCY RATE

The average hotel occupancy rate was 72.3% in May 2007, a year-on-year increase of 6.9 percentage points, with 4-star hotels leading at 77.6%. The average length of stay of hotel guests increased by 0.11 night to 1.26 nights. At the end of May 2007, there were 13,052 guest rooms available in hotels and similar establishments, up by 1,727 rooms (+15.2%) over the same month of 2006.

In May 2007, a total of 453,669 guests checked into hotels and similar establishments, up by 32.3% over May 2006. The majority of the guests came from Mainland China (51.3%) and Hong Kong (26.7%). Number of hotel guests totalled 2,287,312 in the first five months of 2007, representing an increase of 26.2% over the same period of 2006.

PRINCIPAL STATISTICS OF THE HOTEL SECTOR

Overnight guests

Occupancy rate Number Average length of stay

(nights) Classification of

establishments

May 2007

%

Difference^a (Percentage points)

Jan.- May 2007

%

Difference^a (Percentage points)

May 2007

Rate of Change^a

%

May 2007

Difference^a

Total 72.28 6.89 74.67 3.76 453,669 32.26 1.26 0.11

Hotels 73.01 6.34 75.57 3.34 442,668 32.59 1.25 0.10

5-star hotels 70.60 7.53 71.56 3.50 126,839 89.44 1.58 0.17

4-star hotels 77.64 9.85 81.59 7.16 173,571 25.42 1.10 0.02

3-star hotels 74.85 1.29 77.74 -1.23 116,394 12.78 1.16 0.09

2-star hotels 57.73 3.36 61.24 2.96 25,864 2.16 1.12 0.01

Guest-houses ^{55.96 15.45 54.60 9.26 11,001 20.30 1.39 0.12}

a Comparisons with the same period of the previous year