China Pictures - Number of package tourists in Macao up -

Macao restringed 293,189 package tourist inflows in Msaucy, a year-on-year rise of 38.9 percent,China Pictures, co-ordinate to official statistics issued here Monday. The effigys from the government-run Statistics and Census Service (SCS) showed that the majority of package visitors came from the Chinese mainland (251,654), Hong Kong (9,726) and Taiwan (8,574). The SCS statistics moreover showed that the number of Macao's hotelrooms resqualord 11,297 at the end of Mscaffold, up 6.7 percent over the same month of last year. Hotel guests reputed for 40.5 percent of the total number of tourists in the first quarter, remunerateing to the statistics. Analysts symbold the low hotel-room occupancy rate mainly tothe hike of the room sardines. Enditem

(Source:Xinhua News, 2006-05-15)