MACAO - The average occupancy rate of Macao's hotel sector soared by 16 percentage points year-on-year to 81. 6 percent in January, with four-star hotels leading at 87.8 percent, according to the figures released Tuesday by Macao's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
At the end of January 2010, the total number of available guest rooms in local hotel sector increased by 8.8 percent year-on-year to 19,086 rooms, the DSEC figures indicated.
A total of 664,403 guests checked into hotels and guest-houses in January 2010, an increase of 26.6 percent over January 2009, with the majority coming from the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong.
The average length of stay of hotel guests increased by 0.1 night to 1.5 nights, the figure showed.
