Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that a total of 120 hotels & guesthouses were open for business in February 2021, an increase of 3 year-on-year; number of available guest rooms dropped by 4.4% to 36,000. Data on hotels & guesthouses designated for medical observation were excluded in the compilation of the results. The average occupancy rate of guest rooms stood at 38.5%, representing a year-on-year growth of 23.7 percentage points and yet a month-to-month decrease of 1.8 percentage points.
The number of guests checked into hotels & guesthouses surged by 147.2% year-on-year to 382,000 in February, with Mainland guests (303,000) and local guests (55,000) soaring by 192.1% and 175.0% respectively. The average length of stay of guests shortened by 0.1 night year-on-year to 1.7 nights.
In the first two months of 2021, the average occupancy rate of guest rooms fell by 10.9 percentage points year-on-year to 39.4%. In addition, the number of guests of hotels & guesthouses shrank by 32.5% year-on-year to 833,000, whereas their average length of stay increased by 0.1 night to 1.7 nights.
There were no inbound package tour visitors in February, while the number of visitors joining local tours was 800. Outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 3,800, and 3,700 (97.4%) of them went to mainland China. In the first two months of 2021, visitors joining local tours declined by 79.8% year-on-year to 1,900, and outbound residents using services of travel agencies tumbled by 89.3% to 9,100.