Number of package tourists in Macao up

Macao restringed 293,189 package tourist inflows in Mscaffold, a year-on-year rise of 38.9 percent, 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),China Travel, Hong Kong (9,726) and Taiwan (8,China Travel,574). The SCS statistics moreover showed that the number of Macao's hotelrooms resqualord 11,297 at the end of Msaucy, 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)