The average nightly cost in January of a Macau five-star hotel room was down 2.3 percent year-on-year, at MOP1,550.2 (US$193.6), according to a local trade body. It marked seven consecutive months – measured from July – of year-on-year decline in average five-star rates.
The information is based on the latest data from the Macau Hotel Association, published by the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO).
The association currently has 46 hotels as members, of which 26 are five-star properties. Most of those are within casino resort complexes in the city.
In January, the occupancy rate of the assocation’s five-star hotels reached 95.2 percent, up 4.5 percentage points from a year ago, show the figures. Average occupancy that month across the three-, four- and five-star categories, was 94.7 percent, up 3.7 percentage points year-on-year.
Following post- Covid-19 travel easing in Macau in January 2023, the five-star rate among the association’s hotels peaked at MOP1,766.9 in December that year.
Five-star accomodation dominates Macau’s hotel market. As of the fourth quarter in 2024, the city had 24,194 five-star hotel rooms, 57.8 percent of the 41,837 hotel rooms in aggregate, according to a separate set of data from the Statistics and Census Service. The five-star room tally nonetheless was down 14.2 percent versus the same quarter in 2023.
As per the statistics bureau’s own data, the fourth quarter’s five-star average occupancy was 92.0 percent. The average stay for that tier’s guests was 1.9 nights.
