The average occupancy rate of Macao's hotel guest rooms plunged by 76.9 percentage points year-on-year to merely 15.0 percent in February, the special administrative region's statistic department showed on Tuesday.
The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) showed that with a substantial decline in the number of visitor arrivals amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, the occupancy rate of five-star hotels tumbled by 84.0 percentage points to 10.0 percent in February.
The decline in the occupancy rates of two-star hotels and guesthouses was relatively small, with respective decreases of 33.8 percentage points to 36.9 percent and 22.3 percentage points to 43.3 percent, as some of their guest rooms were provided to non-resident workers for accommodation.
The DSEC report added that a total of 115 hotels and guesthouses were operating in February and the number of available guest rooms dropped by 3.8 percent year-on-year to 37,000.
Only 157,000 guests checked into hotels and guesthouses in February, a slump of 85.4 percent year-on-year. The average length of guest stay extended by 0.3 night year-on-year to 1.8 nights.
In the first two months of 2020, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms was 50.3 percent, representing a drop of 42.1 percentage points year-on-year. Guests of hotels and guesthouses reduced by 46.4 percent to 1,236,000, while their average length of stay increased by 0.1 night to 1.6 nights.
Due to successive cancellations of most inbound and outbound tours in February, the numbers of visitors on package tours and outbound residents showed significant decline. There were only 200 package tour visitors in February, and the number of outbound residents using travel agency services dived by 98.1 percent to 3,000.
In the first two months of 2020, a total of 253,000 package tour visitors were recorded, a fall of 83.0 percent year-on-year. The outbound residents using travel agency services decreased by 72.9 percent to 84,000.
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