Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotel establishments stood at 94.6% in February 2026, an uplift of 4.0 percentage points year-on-year. The rates for 5-star (96.5%), 4-star (93.7%) and 3-star hotels (90.9%) showed respective year-on-year growth of 2.8 percentage points, 8.6 percentage points and 3.6 percentage points.
Number of guests of hotel establishments increased by 10.1% year-on-year to 1,226,000 in February; those from the Chinese mainland (955,000) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (124,000) rose by 11.8% and 6.6% respectively. Meanwhile, international guests (81,000) dropped by 5.7% year-on-year; among them, those from Japan (5,000) went down by 32.5%, while those from the Republic of Korea (30,000) and Thailand (6,000) went up by 1.3% and 0.6% respectively.
In February, number of inbound package tour visitors totalled 134,000, down by 8.6% year-on-year. As more Mainland visitors travelled to the Macao Special Administrative Region under the Individual Visit Scheme, number of inbound package tour visitors from the Chinese mainland fell by 10.0% to 112,000.
In the first two months of 2026, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotel establishments was 93.1%, up by 2.4 percentage points year-on-year. Number of guests increased by 4.5% year-on-year to 2,477,000, of which international guests (210,000) rose by 12.9%. A total of 272,000 inbound package tour visitors were recorded in the first two months, down by 11.3% year-on-year; yet, international tour visitors grew by 14.9% to 42,000.