Labor Day hols hotels to be 40-50pct full: Macau government
The average nightly occupancy of hotels in Macau, including hotels in casino resorts (pictured), during the upcoming Labor Day holiday in May could be “40 to 50 percent, according to previous bookings posted Friday by a Macau tourism official” Percent “.
Hoi Io Meng, deputy director of the Macau Government Tourism Bureau (MGTO), quoted the numbers on the Chinese-language radio service of the public broadcaster TDM.
China’s State Council has set the first five days in May as the Labor Day break for this year. Currently, only mainland China has a normally quarantine-free travel bubble with Macau.
The tourism official said the city had seen “over 190,000” visitors in the past week. If such levels could be sustained without “major” further changes to the Covid-19 pandemic situation, it should bode well for the Labor Day break, Hoi said.
Starting Thursday, Macau ID holders could register with one of the city’s 161 accredited travel agents to book one state subsidized “residence” In more than 70 hotels and guest houses, including most of the hotels in the city’s main casino resorts operated by local gaming concessionaires.
The program applies to all bookings made by local ID holders for the period from April 23rd through December 31st and is part of an MGTO initiative called “Stay, Dine and See Macao”.
The initiative could help increase nightly occupancy in the city’s hotels, noted Kenny Cheung Kin Chung, president of the Macau Hoteliers and Innkeepers Association, in an interview broadcast on Friday by the Chinese-language TDM radio service.
