Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that a total of 114 hotels & guesthouses were open for business in July 2020, a decrease of 5 year-on-year; number of available guest rooms dropped by 9.3% to 35,000. Data on hotels & guesthouses used for medical observation were excluded in the compilation of the following statistics. The average occupancy rate of guest rooms was 12.1%, a slip of 81.0 percentage points year-on-year. The rate of 5-star hotels declined by 86.2 percentage points to 7.8%, while that of guesthouses fell by 42.9 percentage points to 23.2%.

Number  of  guests checked into hotels & guesthouses shrank by 87.9% year-on-year to 152,000 in July. Guests from mainland China (55,000) and Hong Kong (11,000) both registered decreases of more than 90%. Meanwhile, number of local guests (81,000) increased by 49.5% as hotels continued to offer staycation packages to residents. The average length of stay of guests went up by 0.2 night year-on-year to 1.6 nights.

In the first seven months of 2020, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms reduced by 66.4 percentage points year-on-year to 25.0%. Number of guests of hotels & guesthouses slid by 75.7% to 1,983,000, whereas their average length of stay rose by 0.2 night to 1.7 nights.

As the issuance of travel permits for Mainland residents to visit Macao remained suspended in July, and the entry ban on visitors from other countries was still in effect, there were no package tour visitors coming to Macao. Meanwhile, outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 200. In the first seven months of 2020, a total of 253,000 package tour visitors were recorded, a fall of 95.6% year-on-year; outbound residents using services of travel agencies declined by 91.6% to 88,000.