Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that visitor arrivals in package tours surged by 132.9% year-on-year to 569,803 in May 2010, as visitors in package tours for May last year was adversely affected by the human swine influenza pandemic. Visitors from Mainland China (422,204); Japan (22,645); Taiwan, China (21,293); and Hong Kong (20,368) rose substantially by 168.0%, 85.9%, 38.1% and 14.5% respectively, and those from the Republic of Korea (14,714) and India (11,375) also registered notable increase. In the first five months of 2010, visitor arrivals in package tours increased by 23.2% year-on-year to 2,575,916. In May 2010, Macao residents travelling outbound in package tours increased by 43.6% year-on-year to 19,101, with Mainland China (78.0% of total); Japan (6.1%); and Taiwan, China (4.2%) being the most popular tour itineraries. In the first five months of 2010, residents travelling in package tours totalled 88,575, up by 11.4% year-on-year. Meanwhile, outbound residents travelling under own arrangements using services of travel agencies rose slightly by 0.7% year-on-year to 36,948 and the main destinations were Mainland China (34.9% of total); Hong Kong (32.9%); and Taiwan, China (18.4%). In the first five months of 2010, outbound residents travelling under such arrangements went up by 6.8% year-on-year to 174,312. At the end of May 2010, total number of available guest rooms of the hotel sector increased by 2,001 (+11.4%) year-on-year to 19,573 rooms. A total of 650,849 guests checked into hotels and guest-houses in May 2010, up notably by 46.3% year-on-year, with the majority coming from Mainland China (51.9% of total) and Hong Kong (19.4%). The average occupancy rate of hotels and guest-houses soared substantially by 18.6 percentage points year-on-year to 77.9%; average occupancy rate of hotels reached 78.6%, with 3-star hotels leading at 81.2%. The average length of stay of guests decreased by 0.02 night to 1.5 nights. The cumulative number of guests reached 3,197,610 in the first five months of 2010, up by 20.3% over the same period of 2009. In the first five months of 2010, visitor-guests of hotels and guest-houses accounted for 60.8% of the total number of tourists, down from 61.7% in the same period of 2009.
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