The average occupancy rate of Macao's hotels reached 82.6 percent in May, with four-star hotels leading at 88.2 percent, according to figures released by the city's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) Thursday.
A total of 689,495 guests checked into local hotels and guest-houses in May, up by 5.9 percent year on year, with the majority coming from the Chinese mainland (54.3 percent) and Hong Kong (18.5 percent), the figures indicated.
The average length of guests' stay for the period decreased by 0.01 night to 1.5 nights.
At the end of May 2011, the total number of available guest rooms of the hotel sector increased by 9.9 percent year on year to 21,518 rooms, according to the DSEC.
In the first five months of this year, visitor-guests of the hotels and guest-houses accounted for 61.3 percent of the total number of tourists, higher than 60.8 percent in the same period of 2010, the DSEC said.