Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotel establishments stood at 89.3% in the first three quarters of 2025, an uplift of 3.9 percentage points year-on-year. Number of guests increased by 0.1% year-on-year to 10,907,000. Meanwhile, number of inbound package tour visitors decreased by 7.8% year-on-year to 1,379,000.
At the end of the third quarter, there were 147 hotel establishments offering accommodation services to the public, an increase of 3 year-on-year; total number of available guest rooms rose by 2.4% to 45,000. For the first three quarters, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms climbed by 3.9 percentage points year-on-year to 89.3%; the rates for 5-star (92.6%), 4-star (83.7%) and 3-star hotels (85.3%) showed respective growth of 5.1 percentage points, 2.5 percentage points and 2.3 percentage points.
Number of guests of hotel establishments increased slightly by 0.1% year-on-year to 10,907,000 in the first three quarters, with guests from the Chinese mainland (8,108,000) rising by 1.3%. International guests (854,000) grew by 9.5% year-on-year; among them, those from the Republic of Korea (249,000), Japan (73,000), Malaysia (61,000) and India (58,000) went up by 8.6%, 20.6%, 7.6% and 5.8% respectively, while those from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (1,337,000) fell by 6.0%. Meanwhile, the average length of stay of guests remained at 1.7 nights.
In the first three quarters, number of inbound package tour visitors fell by 7.8% year-on-year to 1,379,000; those from the Chinese mainland dropped by 13.1% to 1,157,000, while international tour visitors went up by 15.9% to 165,000.
In September this year, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotel establishments was 84.6%, down by 0.1 percentage point year-on-year. Number of guests held stable year-on-year at 1,115,000, while the average length of stay of guests extended by 0.1 night to 1.7 nights. Number of inbound package tour visitors decreased by 20.2% year-on-year to 106,000 in September, of which international tour visitors grew by 33.6% to 20,000.