Macau: The average room occupancy rate of hotel establishments in the first three quarters increased 1.5 percentage points year over year to 90.7%

The Zhitong Finance App learned that according to data from the Macau Statistics and Census Bureau, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms in the first three quarters of 2026 increased 1.5 percentage points year-on-year to 90.7%. Among them, the occupancy rates of five-star (93.5%) and four-star (88.5%) hotels increased by 0.9 and 4.9 percentage points, respectively, while the occupancy rate of three-star hotels (85.2%) decreased by 0.1 percentage points.

The number of hotel guests in the first three quarters of this year fell slightly by 0.9% year on year to 10.81 million; guests from mainland China (7.954 million) and Hong Kong SAR (1.304 million) decreased by 1.9% and 2.6% respectively; international guests (939,000) increased 10.0% year over year, with South Korea (273,000), Thailand (77,000), and India (67,000) increasing by 9.7%, 33.6%, and 16.4%, respectively, while Japan (66,000) and Malaysia (55,000) guests Decreased by 9.0% and 9.6%, respectively.

The number of inbound visitors in the first three quarters was 1.252 million, a year-on-year decrease of 9.3%; the number of group visitors from mainland China decreased by 10.6% to 1.037 million.

In September of this year, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms in the hotel industry rose 3.6 percentage points year on year to 88.0%, and the number of guests increased by 3.9% to 1.16 million; the total number of international guests was 100,000, an increase of 6.4%. Meanwhile, the total number of inbound visitors in September fell 19.9% year over year to 86,000.