The average nightly cost in June of a Macau five-star hotel was down by 8.1 percent year-on-year to MOP1,454.0 (US$179.8). It represented the twelfth consecutive month – measured from July 2024 – of year-on-year decline in the five-star average rate.
That is according to the latest monthly survey from the Macau Hotel Association, published by the Macao Government Tourism Office.
The association currently has 47 hotels as members, of which 26 are five-star properties. Most of those are within casino resort complexes in the city. The rest of the association’s hotel members are of the four- and three-star tier.
Last month, the average room rate across all tiers of the association’s hotels stood at MOP1,261.4, down 8.8 percent year-on-year.
The June occupancy rate of its five-star hotels reached 94.2 percent, up 3.1 percentage points from a year ago. Average occupancy in that month across the three-, four- and five-star categories, was 92.9 percent, up 2.5 percentage points year-on-year.
For the first half of this year, Macau’s five-star hotels’ average nightly cost was MOP1,501.2, a year-on-year decline of 6.7 percent, showed the association’s data.
MGTO director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes mentioned to local media earlier this month – when talking about July and August’s outlook – that the city had 19.22 million visitor arrivals for the first six months of 2025, up about 15 percent year-on-year.
Five-star accommodation dominates Macau’s hotel market. As of May – the most recent figures available – the city had 26,300 five-star hotel rooms, nearly 60 percent of the 43,900 hotel rooms in aggregate.
That is according to a separate set of data from the city’s Statistics and Census Service. Measured year-on-year, the tally of five-star rooms in Macau actually fell by 7.3 percent in May.
