Hotel guest number leaps 140% y-o-y May

A total of 1,104,000 guests checked in Macau’s hotel establishments in May, leaping 140.3% year on year, thestatistics department said on Wednesday. The latest Statistics and Census Service report showed that guests from the Chinese mainland and the Hong Kong SAR jumped by 133.0% and 818.3% year on year to 793,000 and 199,000, respectively.The average occupancy rate of guest rooms in May rose by 44.6 percentage points year on year to 78.9%, showed the report. The number of visitors arriving on package tours totaled 79,000 in May.