Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that in August 2005, visitor arrivals in package tours totalled 255,237, up 13.2% over August 2004. Visitors from Mainland China (199,140) increased 10.1% year-on-year; visitors from Taiwan, China (21,080) increased 3.6% and those from Hong Kong (18,669) jumped 68.0%. In the first eight months of 2005, arrivals in package tours grew 7.1% over the same period of 2004 to 1,735,570. Number of Macao residents travelling in package tours totalled 42,396 in August 2005, a year-on-year increase of 29.6%. Mainland China, Thailand and Taiwan, China were the three more popular tour itineraries, which accounted for 83.1%, 4.8% and 3.4% of the total respectively. In the first eight months of 2005, Macao residents travelling in package tours surged 44.0% compared with the same period of 2004. Meanwhile, 35,872 Macao residents travelled under own arrangements with the assistance of travel agencies, an increase of 12.1% over August 2004; Mainland China (36.1%), Hong Kong (27.3%) and Taiwan, China (16.1%) were the major destinations. In the first eight months of 2005, Macao residents travelling under such arrangements rose 4.9% compared with the same period of 2004. At the end of August 2005, there were 10,549 rooms available in hotels and similar establishments, an increase of 1,268 rooms (+13.7%) over August 2004. In August 2005, a total of 384,807 guests checked into hotels and similar establishments in Macao, up 2.1% over August 2004. The average hotel occupancy rate fell by 6.6 percentage points to 75.8% compared with the same month of 2004, the highest average was in 3-star hotels, at 90.3%. The average length of stay of hotel guests showed an increase of 0.01 night over August 2004 to 1.16 nights. The majority of the guests came from Mainland China (54.4%), Hong Kong (32.6%) and Taiwan, China (3.2%). In the first eight months of 2005, number of hotel guests recorded a year-on-year growth of 1.6% to 2,669,213. In the first eight months of 2005, hotel guests (excluding Macao residents) accounted for 42.8% of the total number of tourists, which was lower than the 46.0% recorded in the same period of 2004.
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