The number of full-time employees in Macau hotels at the end of this year’s first quarter increased by 23.2 per cent year-on-year to a total of 56,414, according to the results of “Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages” for the first quarter of 2024.
Released by the SAR’s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), the survey results also revealed that full-time employees in restaurants (24,005), elderly care (1,425) and manufacturing (7,839) grew by 6.2, 5.6 and 2.6 per cent, respectively, while those in childcare (1,404) and electricity, gas and water supply (1,077) decreased by 6.8 and 0.2 per cent, respectively.
Full-time employees’ average earnings in hotels and restaurants went up by 2.6 and 3.5 per cent, respectively, to MOP 20,470 and MOP 10,610.
In addition, the number of job vacancies in local hotels and restaurants in the first quarter of this year stood at 1,455 and 1,525, respectively – a year-on-year decline of 1,156 hotel jobs and 574 restaurant jobs, according to the DSEC.
The survey results also highlighted that, as mainland China remained the SAR’s largest visitor source market, 91.2 per cent of job vacancies in hotels required knowledge of Mandarin, while 54.8 per cent required knowledge of English.
Meanwhile, Macau’s visitor arrivals on package tours last month increased by 142.3 per cent year-on-year to 216,000, with tour visitors from mainland China growing by 123.3 per cent year-on-year to 194,000, according to the DSEC.
Furthermore, international visitor arrivals on package tours increased by 979.8 per cent to 20,000 in April, with those coming from the Republic of Korea (8,000) and Malaysia (2,000) surging by 2,382.3 and 1,402.2 per cent year-on-year, respectively.
In the first four months of 2024, a total of 720,000 visitors arrived on package tours, a year-on-year increase of 257.9 per cent, while tour visitors from mainland China rose by 226.3 per cent year-on-year to 643,000, according to DSEC.
International visitor arrivals on package tours jumped by 2,292.5 per cent to 70,000, with the number of visitors coming from the Republic Korea (31,000) and Thailand (7,000) increasing by 7,896.4 and 449.2 per cent year-on-year, respectively.
Meanwhile, some 47,000 Macau residents purchased outbound services through travel agencies throughout the month of April – up by 38.9 per cent year-on-year. In this year’s first quarter, the number of local residents purchasing outbound services through travel agencies grew by 61.9 per cent to 162,000. (Gilbert Humphrey)
Photo: Simon Zhu
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