In January, the number of hotel guests in Macau increased by 55.7% year-on-year, with over one million mainland tourists.

Data from the Statistics and Census Bureau of Macao shows that in January, the number of guests in hotel establishments increased by 55.7% year-on-year to 1.32 million, a 7.4% increase from the same month in 2019. Guests from Mainland China (1.004 million), Hong Kong (140,000) and Taiwan (32,000) increased by 50.5%, 28.3% and 3.1 times respectively, while guests from South Korea (31,000) increased by 17.6 times and local guests (46,000) decreased by 6.2%. The average length of stay for guests decreased by 0.1 nights year-on-year to 1.6 nights, an increase of 0.2 nights compared to January 2019. In January, there were a total of 141 hotel establishments providing accommodation services to the public, an increase of 16 from the previous year, with the number of rooms increasing by 20.4% to 46,000. The average occupancy rate of rooms increased by 14.5 percentage points year-on-year to 85.9%, with occupancy rates of over eighty percent for all star-rated hotels, including five-star (87.2%), four-star (84.0%) and three-star hotels (83.8%), which saw increases of 16.7, 14.0 and 7.0 percentage points respectively. In January, there were 145,000 group tour arrivals, while the number of local residents purchasing outbound travel services through travel agencies increased by 1.6 times to 31,000.