Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that Macao registered 425,787 visitor arrivals in package tours in May 2008, up notably by 47.2% from a year earlier. Visitors from Mainland China (278,879) and Hong Kong (32,068) grew by 47.5% and 45.7% year-on-year, while those from Southeast Asia (50,074) surged by 216.8%. In the first five months of 2008, visitors arrived in package tours rose by 22.1% over the same period of 2007 to 2,073,363. The number of Macao residents travelling outbound in package tours in May 2008 increased by 20.1% year-on-year to 16,057. Mainland China (69.5%), Thailand (8.2%) and Japan (6.9%) were the three most popular tour itineraries. In the first five months of 2008, Macao residents travelling in package tours rose by 11.5% over the same period of 2007 to 86,416. Meanwhile, 80,395 residents travelled outbound under individual arrangements using services provided by travel agencies, an upsurge of 233.6% over May 2007. Hong Kong (79.0%), Mainland China (9.3%) and Taiwan, China (4.0%) were the major destinations. In the first five months of 2008, Macao residents travelled under such arrangements rose significantly by 60.9% year-on-year to 201,136. At the end of May 2008, the total number of guest rooms available in the hotel sector grew by 3,182 (+24.4%) from a year earlier to 16,234 rooms. In May 2008, a total of 544,151 guests checked into hotels and similar establishments, representing a year-on-year increase of 19.9%; the majority of the guests came from Mainland China (48.6%) and Hong Kong (22.7%). The average hotel occupancy rate rose slightly by 0.6 percentage point to 72.9%, with 4-star hotels leading at 77.5%; in addition, the average length of stay of hotel guests extended by 0.1 night to 1.4 nights. Total number of hotel guests reached 2,697,570 in the first five months of 2008, up by 17.9% over the same period of 2007. In the first five months of 2008, visitor-guests staying in hotels accounted for 43.1% of the total number of tourists, up from 42.7% in the corresponding period of 2007.
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