Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that a total of 120 hotels & guesthouses were open for business in November 2020, down by 1 year-on-year; number of available guest rooms dropped by 7.8% to 35,000. Data on hotels & guesthouses used for medical observation were excluded in the compilation of the results. The average occupancy rate of guest rooms was 43.9%, representing a month-to-month growth of 4.1 percentage points and yet a year-on-year decrease of 48.0 percentage points; the rate of 3-star hotels stood at 55.1%.

A total of 473,000 guests checked into hotels & guesthouses in November, indicating a decline of 59.3% year-on-year. Guests from mainland China dropped by 49.3% year-on-year to 404,000, while local guests inched down by 0.5% to 47,000. The average length of stay of guests increased by 0.1 night year-on-year to 1.6 nights.

From January to November this year, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms fell by 64.4 percentage points year-on-year to 26.3%. Meanwhile, the number of guests of hotels & guesthouses dipped by 74.4% year-on-year to 3,293,000, whereas their average length of stay went up by 0.2 night to 1.7 nights.

There were no inbound package tour visitors in November, while the number of visitors joining local tours was 2,000. In addition, outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 8,500, and 8,200 (96.5%) of them went to mainland China. From January to November 2020, a total of 260,000 package tour visitors were recorded, a decline of 96.7% year-on-year; outbound residents using services of travel agencies tumbled by 93.2% to 110,000.