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- STR reported China hotel data for the week ended May 6. Hotel RevPAR in China was up 140.9% year over year.
- The South China Morning Post said Macau’s casinos are still struggling with finding labor as hotel rooms stay shut and the resorts are unable to fully satiate the booming demand from mainland China tourists.
- Araiya Hotels and Resorts and Kamakhya Hospitality Services Private Limitedannounced plans for a new urban resort Soul by Araiya, Dharamshala, A Kamakhya Hotel, anticipated to open in Q4 2023.
STR reported China hotel data for the week ended May 6. Hotel RevPAR in China was up 140.9% year over year. When compared with the same week in 2019, hotel RevPAR was up 21.2%.
The South China Morning Post said Macau’s casinos are still struggling with finding labor as hotel rooms stay shut and the resorts are unable to fully satiate the booming demand from mainland China tourists. While the newspaper said Macau casinos laid off staff during the pandemic, casino gaming revenue was down close to -80% from 2019 in the final quarter of 2022 yet they were still forced to have 52,174 full-time employees and that was down only 10% from 2019. The problem is that the casino employs locals but the hotels and non-gaming amenities tend to employ foreign workers and the Macau government makes them go through a lot of red tape to get approved to work there. Expatriate workers who left Macau over the past three years are finding it difficult to return due to diff
