Macau, China, June 26, 2026 (Lusa) - Macau’s hotels welcomed 1,174,000 guests in May, a year-on-year decrease of 4.5%, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) announced on Friday.

The number of guests from mainland China (847,000) and Hong Kong (148,000) fell by 6.2% and 8.6% respectively, according to a DSEC statement, which also notes that the number of international guests (117,000) rose by 16.1% during the month in question.

At the end of May, Macau had 147 hotel establishments, the same number as in the same period last year, and offered almost 45,000 rooms (-0.5%), according to data released by the DSEC.

The average occupancy rate for guest rooms in hotels in May stood at 89.8%, up 1.8 percentage points year-on-year, according to the statement.

In the first five months of the year, the DSEC also noted, hotels accommodated 6.02 million people, an increase of 0.3% compared with the same period last year.

In 2025, Macau’s hotels set a new record for guest numbers, with almost 14.6 million, 1% more than the previous record, set the year before.

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