Number of package tourists in Macao sees rise in Oct.

Macao recorded 216,032 package tourist arrivals in October, a year-on-year rise of 0.2 percent, according to official statistics issued on Tuesday.

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 (154,684), Taiwan (17,658) and Hong Kong (10,963).

The SCS statistics also showed that the number of Macao's hotel rooms reached 12,419 at the end of October, up 16.8 percent over the same month of last year.

Hotel guests accounted for 41 percent of the total number of tourists in the first 10 months, according to the statistics.

Source: Xinhua