The average hotel occupancy rate in Macao stood at 90.2 percent in April 2026, an uplift of 2.4 percentage points year-on-year, according to the latest information from the Statistics and Census Service (known by its Portuguese initials DSEC). 

The rates for 5-star (93 percent), 4-star (88.2 percent) and 3-star hotels (84.6 percent) showed respective year-on-year growth of 2.1 percentage points, 5.8 percentage points and 0.2 percentage points.

The number of hotel guests edged down by 0.8 percent year-on-year to 1,186,000 in April; those from the Chinese mainland (844,000) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (164,000) dropped by 1.7 percent and 3.5 percent respectively. 

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Meanwhile, international guests (115,000) increased by 8.1 percent year-on-year; among them, those from South Korea (31,000) and Thailand (12,000) went up by 20.3 percent and 40.5 percent respectively, while those from India (8,000) and Malaysia (6,000) went down by 17.5 percent and 21.1 percent respectively.

In the first four months of 2026, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotel establishments was 91.8 percent, up by 2.2 percentage points year-on-year. 

The number of guests in the first four months increased by 1.9 percent year-on-year to 4,865,000, of which international guests (453,000) rose by 13.8 percent. International tour visitors grew by 13.7 percent to 87,000.