Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicates that in April 2005, visitor arrivals in package tours totalled 231,739, down 2.5% over April 2004. Visitors from Mainland China (180,995) dropped 14.1% year-on-year; visitors from Taiwan, China (28,722) surged 136.3% and those from Hong Kong (6,378) decreased 4.4%. In the first four months of 2005, visitor arrivals in package tours grew 6.0% over the same period of 2004 to 828,599. Number of Macao residents travelling in package tours totalled 19,372 in April 2005, a year-on-year increase of 49.7%. Mainland China, Taiwan, China and Thailand were the three more popular tour itineraries, which accounted for 86.3%, 3.1% and 3.0% of the total respectively. In the first four months of 2005, Macao residents travelling in package tours went up 56.4% compared with the same period of 2004. Meanwhile, 23,552 Macao residents travelled under own arrangements with the assistance of travel agencies, an increase of 16.5% over April 2004; Mainland China (39.2%), Taiwan, China (20.5%) and Hong Kong (16.0%) were the major destinations. In the first four months of 2005, Macao residents travelling under such arrangements fell 4.5% compared with the same period of 2004. At the end of April 2005, there were 10,636 rooms available in hotels and similar establishments, an increase of 1,318 rooms (14.1%) over April 2004. In April 2005, a total of 330,819 guests checked into hotels and similar establishments in Macao, a slight decrease of 0.5% over April 2004. The average hotel occupancy rate fell 10.0 percentage points to 67.0% compared with the same month of 2004. The highest occupancy rate was in 3-star hotels, at 76.9%. The average length of stay of hotel guests dropped 0.02 night over April 2004 to 1.16 nights. The majority of the guests came from Mainland China (58.8%), Hong Kong (25.6%) and Taiwan, China (3.1%). In the first four months of 2005, number of hotel guests showed a marginal decrease of 0.1% to 1,240,528 over the same period of 2004. In the first four months of 2005, hotel guests (excluding Macao residents) accounted for 41.2% of the total number of tourists, which was lower than the 46.4% recorded in the same period of 2004.
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