Macao hotel occupancy rate reaches 88.9% in July
Updated: 2011-09-15 09:23
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MACAO-- The average occupancy rate of Macao's hotels reached 88.9 percent in July, with four-star hotels leading at 93.1 percent, according to figures released by the city's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) Wednesday.
A total of 795,827 guests checked into local hotels and guest-houses in July, up by 21.5 percent year-on-year, with the majority coming from the Chinese mainland (54.2 percent) and Hong Kong (21.5 percent), the figures indicated.
The average length of guests' stay for the period decreased by 0.07 night to 1.4 nights.
At the end of July 2011, the total number of available guest rooms of the hotel sector increased by 10.5 percent year-on-year to 21,804 rooms, according to the DSEC.
In the first seven months of this year, visitor-guests of the hotels and guest-houses accounted for 61.5 percent of the total number of tourists, higher than 60.5 percent in the same period of 2010, the DSEC said.
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