According to Macau's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), average hotel occupancy rates in the city dropped by 12.6 percentage points year-on-year to 60.7% in June 2009, with four-star hotels leading at 64.5%.

Amongst the 445,756 guests who stayed in local hotels and similar establishments in June 2009, 40% were mainland Chinese guests and 29.5% were Hong Kong guests.

The average length of stay of hotel guests increased by 0.13 nights year-on-year to 1.52 nights during the period.

In the first six months of 2009, there were approximately 18,128 available hotel rooms, an 11.7% increase compared to the same period in 2008. 

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