Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals in package tours increased by 18.3% year-on-year to 757,190 in January 2013. Package tour visitors mainly came from Mainland China (562,722), with 250,029 coming from Guangdong Province, followed by those from Taiwan, China (55,473); the Republic of Korea (42,469) and Hong Kong (30,763). Macao residents travelling outbound using services of travel agencies increased by 18.9% year-on-year to 112,893 in January 2013, of which 40,308 travelled in package tours. The main destinations were Mainland China (64,808), accounting for 57.4% of the total, while Hong Kong and Taiwan, China took up 18.3% and 11.2% respectively. There were 100 hotels and guesthouses operating at the end of January 2013, providing 26,027 rooms, up by 16.5% year-on-year; guest rooms of 5-star hotels accounted for 63.8% of the total. In January 2013, the hotels and guesthouses received 832,543 guests, up by 19.1% year-on-year, with the majority coming from Mainland China (60.3% of total) and Hong Kong (14.5%). The average length of stay of guests decreased by 0.13 night year-on-year to 1.4 nights. Meanwhile, the average occupancy rate of hotels and guesthouses stood at 82.9%, up by 3.8 percentage points year-on-year, with 5-star hotels reaching 84.9%. In January 2013, visitor-guests took up 70.1% of the total number of overnight visitors, higher than the 59.1% in January 2012.
