Number of package tourists in Macao drops in June

Macao recorded 207,989 package tourist arrivals in June, a year-on-year drop of 3.2 percent, according to official statistics issued here on Friday.

The figures from the government-run Statistics and Census Service (SCS) showed that the majority of package visitors came in the month from the Chinese mainland with 162,975, China's Taiwan 15,371 and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 7,560.

The SCS statistics also showed that the number of Macao's hotel rooms reached 11,748 at the end of June, up 11.1 percent over the same month of last year.

Hotel guests accounted for 40.8 percent of the total number of tourists in the first six months, according to the statistics.

Analysts attributed the low hotel-room occupancy rate mainly to the high room charges.

Source: Xinhua