Macau: The average hotel occupancy rate reached 90.4% in the first half of the year.

According to data from the Macao Statistics and Census Bureau, the average hotel occupancy rate in the first half of 2026 rose by 1.3 percentage points year-on-year to 90.4%. Among these, the occupancy rates for five-star (93.8%) and four-star (87.4%) hotels increased by 1.4 and 4.3 percentage points respectively, while the occupancy rate for three-star hotels (84.4%) fell by 1.0 percentage point. In the first half of this year, the number of hotel guests decreased by 1.1% year-on-year to 7.127 million; guests from mainland China (5.214 million) and the Hong Kong SAR (857,000) both dropped by 2.5%. International guests (662,000) increased by 12.3%, with guests from South Korea (191,000), Thailand (54,000), India (48,000), and the United States (34,000) rising by 13.0%, 43.5%, 16.1%, and 27.8% respectively, while guests from Japan (45,000) and Malaysia (42,000) decreased by 5.6% and 6.0% respectively. In the first half of the year, the number of inbound travelers in tour groups totaled 845,000, a year-on-year decrease of 12.6%; mainland China group visitors fell by 16.7% to 681,000. Looking at the monthly data, in June of this year, the average hotel occupancy rate decreased by 2.6 percentage points year-on-year to 85.8%, with the number of guests dropping by 8.6% to 1.095 million; international guests totaled 94,000, an increase of 3.0%. On the other hand, the total number of inbound travelers in tour groups in June decreased by 14.2% year-on-year to 88,000.