Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicates that in May 2005, visitor arrivals in package tours totalled 215,340, up 14.0% over May 2004. Visitors from Mainland China (159,604) dropped 1.8% year-on-year; visitors from Taiwan, China (23,044) surged 111.4% and those from Hong Kong (8,707) increased 58.2%. In the first five months of 2005, visitor arrivals in package tours grew 7.6% over the same period of 2004 to 1,043,939. Number of Macao residents travelling in package tours totalled 24,550 in May 2005, a year-on-year increase of 62.4%. Mainland China, Thailand and Taiwan, China were the three more popular tour itineraries, which accounted for 83.9%, 3.8% and 3.5% of the total respectively. In the first five months of 2005, Macao residents travelling in package tours went up 57.9% compared with the same period of 2004. Meanwhile, 24,773 Macao residents travelled under own arrangements with the assistance of travel agencies, an increase of 11.1% over May 2004; Mainland China (32.1%), Taiwan, China (22.9%) and Hong Kong (18.1%) were the major destinations. In the first five months of 2005, Macao residents travelling under such arrangements fell 1.4% compared with the same period of 2004. At the end of May 2005, there were 10,454 rooms available in hotels and similar establishments, an increase of 1,141 rooms (12.3%) over May 2004. In May 2005, a total of 329,184 guests checked into hotels and similar establishments in Macao, an increase of 4.6% over May 2004. The average hotel occupancy rate fell 4.1 percentage points to 67.0% compared with the same month of 2004. The highest occupancy rate was in 3-star hotels, at 76.4%. The average length of stay of hotel guests dropped 0.01 night over May 2004 to 1.18 nights. The majority of the guests came from Mainland China (55.7%), Hong Kong (27.9%) and Taiwan, China (3.3%). In the first five months of 2005, number of hotel guests showed a marginal increase of 0.9% to 1,569,712 over the same period of 2004. In the first five months of 2005, hotel guests (excluding Macao residents) accounted for 41.6% of the total number of tourists, which was lower than the 46.3% recorded in the same period of 2004.
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