Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that visitor arrivals in package tours totalled 216,032 in October 2006, a marginal increase of 0.2% year-on-year. Among them, visitors from Mainland China (154,684) and Taiwan, China (17,658) dropped 8.3% and 18.9% respectively, while visitors from Hong Kong (10,963) rose 16.4% over October 2005. In the first ten months of 2006, visitor arrivals in package tours grew 7.8% over the same period of 2005 to 2,312,987. Number of Macao residents travelled in package tours in October was 19,599, a year-on-year decrease of 15.1%. Mainland China; Thailand; and Taiwan, China were the three more popular tour itineraries, which accounted for 78.8%, 5.0% and 4.9% of the total respectively. In the first ten months of 2006, Macao residents travelled in package tours logged 223,581, which decreased by 9.9% compared with the same period of 2005. Meanwhile, 26,949 Macao residents travelled under own arrangements using services provided by travel agencies, a decrease of 2.0% year-on-year. Mainland China (36.4%), Hong Kong (27.9%) and Taiwan, China (15.9%) were the major destinations. In the first ten months of 2006, Macao residents travelled under such arrangements increased 13.9% to 302,154 over the corresponding period of 2005. At the end of October 2006, number of guest rooms available in the hotel industry registered an increase of 1,784 rooms (+16.8%) over October 2005 to 12,419 rooms. In addition, a total of 412,448 guests checked into hotels and similar establishments in October, a year-on-year growth of 17.3%. The average hotel occupancy rate was 73.6%, representing a decrease of 1.8 percentage points over October 2005, with 4-star hotels leading at 80.2%. The average length of stay of hotel guests showed a decrease of 0.06 night to 1.19 nights. The majority of the guests came from Mainland China (52.7%), Hong Kong (28.2%) and Taiwan, China (2.9%). In the first ten months of 2006, the number of hotel guests increased 12.2% over the same period of 2005 to 3,755,609. In the first ten months of 2006, hotel guests (excluding Macao residents) accounted for 41.0% of the total number of tourists, which was lower than the 42.8% recorded in the same period of 2005.
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