Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that visitor arrivals in package tours totalled 289,626 in November 2006, up slightly by 0.2% year-on-year. Among them, visitors from Mainland China (214,504) dropped 10.6%, while those from Hong Kong (21,720) and Southeast Asia (13,637) reported remarkable growths of 121.4% and 114.2% respectively compared with November 2005. In the first eleven months of 2006, visitor arrivals in package tours grew 6.9% over the same period of 2005 to 2,602,613. Number of Macao residents travelling in package tours in November 2006 was 21,754, a year-on-year increase of 12.0%. Mainland China; Thailand; and Taiwan, China were the three most popular tour itineraries, which accounted for 82.2%, 4.9% and 4.4% of the total respectively. In the first eleven months of 2006, Macao residents (245,335) travelling in package tours went down 8.4% compared with the same period of 2005. Meanwhile, 30,428 residents travelled under own arrangements using services provided by travel agencies, a marginal decrease of 0.5% over November 2005. Mainland China (37.8%); Hong Kong (33.1%); and Taiwan, China (12.5%) were the major destinations. In the first eleven months of 2006, Macao residents travelled under such arrangements increased 12.4% to 332,582 over the corresponding period of 2005. At the end of November 2006, number of guest rooms available in the hotel industry registered an increase of 1,860 rooms (+17.2%) over November 2005 to 12,693 rooms. In addition, a total of 443,377 guests checked into hotels and similar establishments, representing a year-on-year growth of 14.3%. The average hotel occupancy rate dropped by 5.0 percentage points to 77.6%, with 4-star hotels leading at 85.0%. The average length of stay of hotel guests edged down by 0.01 night to 1.20 nights. The majority of the guests came from Mainland China (56.8%), Hong Kong (25.0%) and Taiwan, China (2.5%). In the first eleven months of 2006, number of hotel guests increased 12.4% over the same period of 2005 to 4,198,986. In the first eleven months of 2006, hotel guests (excluding Macao residents) accounted for 41.4% of the total number of tourists, which was lower than the 43.2% recorded in the same period of 2005.
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