Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that number of visitors arrived in Macao in package tours totalled 201,060, up 10.0% over January 2005. Visitors from Mainland China (161,875) had a year-on-year growth of 11.5% but those from Taiwan, China (9,654) decreased 35.8%. In view of the Chinese New Year holidays, visitors from Hong Kong (7,917) showed a drastic increase of 82.0% over January 2005. Subsequent to the continuous improvements of the local economy and the income level of the residents, more people preferred to travel outside Macao during the Chinese New Year holidays. Number of Macao residents travelling in package tours totalled 29,011 in January, a remarkable year-on-year increase of 134.3%. Mainland China, Thailand and Taiwan, China were the three more popular tour itineraries, which accounted for 78.2%, 5.9% and 3.9% of the total respectively. Meanwhile, 32,064 residents travelled under own arrangements using services provided by the travel agencies, a jump of 80.5% over January 2005; Mainland China (33.0%), Hong Kong (30.0%) and Taiwan, China (15.0%) were the major destinations. As a result of the openings of several new hotels in the past few months, the number of guest rooms available in the hotel industry increased by 11.3% (+1,114 rooms) over the same month of 2005 to 11,015 at the end of January 2006. In addition, a total of 327,331 guests checked into hotels and similar establishments, up 8.1% over January 2005. The average hotel occupancy rate was 64.5%, a year-on-year decrease of 2.3 percentage points, the highest average was in 3-star hotels, at 70.4%. The average length of stay of hotel guests was 1.16 nights, which fell by 0.04 night compared with January 2005. The majority of the guests came from Mainland China (57.9%), Hong Kong (27.2%) and Taiwan, China (2.8%). In January 2006, hotel guests (excluding Macao residents) accounted for 39.3% of the total number of tourists, which was lower than the 42.8% in January 2005.
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