5 Star
Hotel Lisboa (The most famous one !!)
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Hotel Royal Macau (Macau first 5 star hotel)
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Hotel Grandeur Macau
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Landmark Macau
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Mandarin Oriental Macau
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Pousada De Sao Tiago Macau
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Ritz Hotel Macau

Hyatt Regency Macau (Taipa)
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New Century Hotel (Taipa)
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Westin Resort Macau (Co<span id="<span id="LOAN" class=xxxxkeyword onmouseover="onmo(this);" onmouseout="inMenu=false;hide(this);">LOAN</span>" class=xxxxkeyword onmouseover="onmo(this);" onmouseout="inMenu=false;hide(this);">loan</span>e Island)

4 Star
Beverly Plaza Hotel

Grandview Hotel Macau
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Holiday Inn Macau
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Hotel China Macau
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Hotel Presidente Macau
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Nam Yue Hotel Macau
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Pousada Marina Infante Macau
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Pousada de Mong-ha
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3 Star
Emperor Hotel Macau
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Fu Hua Hotel Macau
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Hotel Fortuna Macau

Hotel Sintra
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Hotel Sun Sun Macau
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Kingsway Hotel
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Metropole Hotel Macau
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New World Emperor Hotel Macau
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One large pic of Mandarin Oriental Hotel

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Mandarin Oriental Hotel looks really old compared with the nearby brand new Sands Hotel

Yes .. i reckon it's the time to change the facade !! :)

Hong Kong hotels were warned Thursday they face a staffing crisis as the city's booming neighbour Macau poaches workers for its new casino hotels.

Hong Kong Hotels Association chairman Mark Lettenbichler said the industry would need 23,000 more workers in the next three years to cope with demand from the two cities.

But he cautioned that Macau, which has seen an explosion in tourism as new Las Vegas-style casino hotels begin opening, could start head-hunting staff from Hong Kong.

Strict labour laws prevent Hong Kong hotels from employing overseas workers but no such restrictions exist in Macau, a teeming former Portuguese colony with 450,000 inhabitants.

"Hotels and related sectors in Macau are not an immediate serious competitor to us," Lettenbichler told a conference Thursday. "However, as the proposed new developments arrive the situation will change in the near future.

"Labour market policies in Macau allow employers to source talent abroad. Talent from Hong Kong will be a possible target."

Macau, which was returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1999, two years after former British colony Hong Kong, last year liberalized its casino industry to allow foreign operators in.

New casino hotels run by Las Vegas-based companies began opening earlier this year and the territory's hospitality industry is struggling to cope with the demand for staff.

Lettenbichler appealed to the Hong Kong government to ease labour import laws to allow the city's hotels to bring in more overseas workers.

Hong Kong hotels have this year recorded their highest occupancy rates for eight years with an average of 86 per cent, thanks largely to an influx of tourists from mainland China.

Mandarin Oriental (From MacauDaily - 2004/11/7)
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The average hotel occupancy rate in the tourist city of Macao pegged at 71.2 percent in September, sustaining a high rate since the beginning of the year.

The Macao Statistics and Census Bureau's figures suggested thathotels in Macao received a total of 297,195 guests in September, up 11.8 percent over the same period of last year.

Three-star hotels were most popular with an averaged occupancy rate of 84.4 percent, as they are most likely to be patronized by individual travelers from China's mainland.

By the end of September, Macao's 9,105 hotel rooms hosted 2.9 million guests, an increase of 38.3 percent over the same period last year. In September, tourists from China's mainland made up 53.7 percent of all hotel guests. Enditem

Package tour organiser Wing On Travel (Holdings) has become the latest Hong Kong-listed firm to rush into Macau's tourist industry by agreeing to buy a stake in a hotel.

However, the news failed to fuel its shares, which slipped 28.21 per cent to close at HK$0.028 on Thursday after a five-day suspension.

They hit a new high of HK$0.058 during morning trading.

Wing On, which also runs hotels in Hong Kong and the mainland, said it would pay HK$157.5 million to independent investor Chan Chak-mo for a 34.24 per cent stake in Kingsway Hotel through a fully-owned unit.

About HK$50 million would be funded by its internal resources, while the remainder would be settled by bank borrowings.

Regal Hotels International Holdings will focus on developing new hotels in Macau rather than Hong Kong, citing lower land prices in the former Portuguese enclave.

Chairman Lo Yuk-sui said his group of companies - including Century City International Holdings, Regal Hotels International Holdings and Paliburg Holdings - would still pursue opportunities in Hong Kong through expansion of existing facilities, but acquisition costs for new sites were too high to justify new hotel construction.

"The development costs for a five-star hotel in Macau are about $ 1 million per room," he said, while those here would be much pricier.

" Hong Kong land prices have jumped quite a lot recently. Therefore we are upgrading our existing hotels, adding more rooms to them."

He said that Regal would spend more than $ 100 million to add more than 300 rooms to two hotels in Sha Tin and Causeway Bay.

Mr Lo said the Regal group was negotiating a number of investment possibilities, but declined to offer specifics.

"We are looking at quite a number of projects, but I can't give you a number on that."

He did say, however, that there would be no move into the casino business, but that the group would invest in luxury residential projects in Macau.

"We will study carefully each project's potential for profit. Our advantage is that we have a very stable core business," he added.

Century City International was planning to increase its stake in a privately owned marketing firm - 8D - which provides travel services in Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland, he said. It is 60 per cent owned by a private company controlled by Mr Lo.

Casino mogul Stanley Ho's family business planned to unveil The Park Hyatt project by 2007, which will be the first six-star hotel in Macao.

Tuesday's Macao Post reported that investors expect to put up 1.5 billion HK dollars (192 million US dollars) to fund the project,and are confident to return on capital one or two years after its opening.

Stanley Ho's flagship Macao Entertainment Co. Ltd. (STDM) and the Melco International Development Ltd. run by his son Lawrence

Ho Yau Lung and the Australia-based gaming company Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd. joined forces in launching the project on Taipa Island, which is located some four kilometers off the Macao Peninsula, according to the newspaper's report.

The hotel will be the tallest building on the island, which accommodates the Macao International Airport. It is designed to stand at 160 meters high and stretch for a total construction area of 103,000 square meters.

The 32-story hotel will house a 6-story up-market casino targeting at high rollers and big spenders.

Among several new casinos under construction in Macao, nearly half belong to Ho's family. Stanley Ho held that smaller casinos with small profit margins would be replaced. The market demand will have the final say on how many casinos the small city would accommodate eventually.

44 floors and 232 meters

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Expanded Hotel Lisboa of Macao aims to be Asia's most luxurious

Expansion project of a new wing of Asia's oldest casino resort Hotel Lisboa in Macao is expected to cost some 250 million US dollars to flaunt itself among Asia's most luxury hotels.

Macao's largest Portuguese-languaged newspaper Ponto Final said Friday that Stanley Ho Hung Sun will launch construction of the 40-story Grand Lisboa next to his flagship Hotel Lisboa, which houses his largest casino-entertainment parlors, this month.

The newspaper quoted its sources with Ho's Macao Gaming Co. Ltd.as saying that the 44-floor mega-hotel will comprise 800 hotel rooms and 30,000 square meters in casino space.

The expansion project to be completed in 40 months in two phases will be started on a former soccer pitch, facing the three-decade old Hotel Lisboa across a street and connected by an overhead walkway. It is expected to turn the future hotel into Macao's tallest building.

At present, the 338-meter Macao Tower is the tallest building in Macao, which is also owned by Ho's affiliated company.

Speaking to the media earlier this year, Ho said the hotel's facade would resemble the lotus flower, which is regarded as an official emblem of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR).

Ho's gaming company now runs all 12 operating casinos in Macao.The company holds one of Macao's three casino-operating concessions granted by the Macao SAR government in 2002. The other two concessions are held by the Hong Kong-owned Galaxy Group with The Venetian from Las Vegas as a sub-concession, and Wynn Resorts from Las Vegas.

Galaxy and The Venetian have announced their plan to open their first casinos in Macao next month. Wynn Resorts is expected to start construction of a mega-casino resort in Macao's Outer Harborby the end of the year.

However, before the high-profile exposure of foreign casino rivals, Ho still has the stronghold in the gaming market. His casino business made a record net profit of 3.3 billion patacas (412 million US dollars) last year, an increase of around 50 percent on the previous year.

The number of hotel rooms in China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) will double the present capacity in three to five years as the city's tourist hardware facility could hardly accommodate the rising demand.

Joao Manuel Costa Antunes, director of the Macao Government Tourist Office (MGTO) said at a press conference Wednesday that there are 25 hotel construction projects listed for completion in three to five years adding 10,698 hotel rooms.

Currently, there are 43 hotels and 33 guesthouses in Macao offering a total of 10,502 rooms. The averaged occupancy rate stood at 81.24 percent in 2004, which was 10.69 percent up from the previous year.

Antunes said that among last year's 16.67 million visitor arrivals, only 49.92 percent of the visitors stayed in Macao overnight with the length of stay averaging 1.22 days.

He disclosed that the government has received many applicationsfor hotel licenses and land concession for building hotel facilities, which will help increase the total number of hotel rooms by 16,750 in seven years.

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HONG KONG (AFX) - Regal Hotels International Holdings Ltd said it has signed a memorandum of agreement with Venetian Group of Las Vegas for a hotel development project in Cotai, Macau.

Regal Hotels said in a statement the project 'will complement the company's hotel business in Hong Kong and will enhance the future prospects of the company.'

It did not give financial details.

The company plans to develop a hotel project in the Cotai Resort area in Macau, with a site area of 618,000 square feet and total gross floor area of 3.4 mln square feet.

It will build the project in two phases, with the initial phase involving the construction of 1,500 guestrooms and suites, as well as food & beverage outlets and related hotel facilities.

It will also include the construction of a casino and showroom which will be leased, fitted out and operated by the Venetian Group.

The second phase will involve the building of another 1,500 guestrooms and suites as well as the expansion of the casino and hotel facilities.

Construction of the first phase will begin later this year and will be completed in 2007.

Regal Hotels ended the morning session up 0.02 hkd or 3.08 pct at 0.67.

MACAO, March 14 (Xinhuanet) -- The number of tourists traveling Macao in groups reached 186,445 in January, up 17.4 percent from the same period of last year.

According to the statistics released by the Macao Statistics and Census Bureau on Monday, 147,469 of the total visitors were from the Chinese mainland, up 12.5 percent from the corresponding period of last year.

Meanwhile, the number of group tourists from China's Taiwan surged by 41.6 percent year-on-year to 15,046 in January.

The bureau's statistics also showed that the number of hotel rooms reached 9,630 accommodating a total of 302,431 guests in January. The averaged hotel room occupancy rate stood at 67 percent, while that in three-star tourist hotels averaged 74 percent during the period. Enditem

IDeaS, the leading provider of hospitality revenue optimization solutions and one of the industry's fastest growing technology companies today announced that the Mandarin Oriental Macau has launched IDeaS Revenue Optimization.

Mandarin Oriental is one of the world's top global luxury hotel groups. They currently operate over 8,000 rooms over three continents with several new properties scheduled to open. The Macau property is the 11th Mandarin Oriental to launch IDeaS. The other locations are: the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, the Mandarin Oriental Geneva, the Mandarin Oriental-Excelsior Hong Kong, the Mandarin Oriental Honolulu, the Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur, the Mandarin Oriental London, the Mandarin Oriental Miami, the Mandarin Oriental San Francisco, the Mandarin Oriental Singapore, and Mandarin Oriental-The Mark, New York. A twelfth location, the Mandarin Oriental, New York Hotel is scheduled to go live later this year.

Macau continues to be one of the fastest growing regions in the Pacific region with the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) having predicted growth of 15.9% through this year.

"Mandarin Oriental has had a long productive relationship with IDeaS for a range of reasons," said Michael Hobson, Group Sales and Marketing Director for Mandarin Oriental. "We found their product uniquely capable to match its functionality to our revenue management initiatives."

"Our relationship with Mandarin Oriental has continued to broaden over the five years we have worked with them. It is a mutually rewarding business partnership that will continue well in to the future," said Grahame Tate, IDeaS Managing Director, Asia Pacific Region. "Mandarin Oriental in particular can be commended for their deployment capabilities of the IDeaS V5 system and the strong revenue optimization culture they have in place."

Macau is located on the western bank of the Pearl River Delta in the Guangdong province of Southern China , intersecting Mainland China and the South China Sea. Over recent years, the casino-led city has experienced a tourism boom, fuelled by the liberalisation of the gaming industry in 2002. This has naturally had a knock-on impact on hotel performance which reached its highest levels to date last year. Results from the HotelBenchmark Survey by Deloitte show that Macau`s revenue per available room (revPAR) increased by 35.4% to US$63 in 2004.

17m visitors and rising

According to the Statistics and Census Service of Macau, the total number of visitors to the city reached 17m in 2004, an increase of over 40% compared to 2003. Macau saw a surge in visitors from all corners of Asia during 2004. With over one billion people within a three hour radius of the city, this increase is not surprising.

Mainland China remains the Macau`s largest source market - accounting for 60% of all visitors. The Chinese government continues to relax travel restrictions under the Individual Visitor Scheme (IVS) which currently account for 21.1% of total arrivals. The IVS started on 28 July 2003 and allows travellers from certain provinces and cities in Mainland China to visit Macau on an individual basis. The scheme is expected to expand to include more cities and provinces. As a result, Macau will look forward to increasing numbers of visitors from the Mainland.

Macau`s second largest source market is its eastern neighbour Hong Kong, attracting over 5m visitors in 2004. Linked by more than 150 sea crossings each day, Macau is only an hour away for those tempted to gamble in the city`s casinos.

The potential to take off

The number of passengers passing through Macau International Airport (MIA) also saw a rise in 2004, up 28% to 3.7m. With no direct routes to Macau from international destinations outside Asia, there is potential to push these figures up even further. Macau`s close proximity to neighbouring airports such as Hong Kong and Shenzhen however provide stiff competition. Although MIA is trying to encourage more low cost airlines to add Macau to their routes, the cost of flying to the city is still higher than alternative airports. Therefore, many tourists, both domestic and international choose to fly to these airports and continue their trip to Macau using alternative land or sea routes.

The government places its bet

Visitor arrivals are set to increase again in 2005. The Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) continues to develop the city into a tourism hub focusing on gaming, MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) and leisure markets.

A number of important events scheduled to be held in the city during 2005 will no doubt help increase visitor numbers further. Macau will host the 54th Pacific Asia Travel Association Annual Conference next week and a number of prestigious sporting events towards the end of the year. These include the 4th East Asian Games in October and the 52nd Macau Grand Prix in November.

2005 will also be an important year for cultural tourism, as the city hopes to add 12 cultural heritage sites to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) World Heritage Listing. The sites include Macau`s oldest church, Christian cemetery, lighthouse and Western theatre. The MGTO hopes this will add to its continuing efforts to make visitors aware of Macau`s unique combination of Chinese and Portuguese cultures.

The MGTO is also working closely with tourism authorities in the surrounding Pearl River Delta area, including Guangdong and Hong Kong to complement and promote regional tourism. By sharing resources and joint promotions, the region will be able to enhance their competitive edge. Mainland China is also supporting several infrastructure improvements to bring more people into the region, including a 30km bridge linking three cities on the Pearl River Delta - Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai. The bridge is set to be completed in 2008, at a cost of US$531m and is expected to handle 20,000 vehicles every day.

Hotel performance on a roll

As the graph below illustrates, Macau saw a staggering increase in both visitor numbers and hotel performance in 2004. RevPAR increased by 35.4% to US$63. This was driven equally by improvements in occupancy and average room rate. Although performance has improved year-on-year since 2000, Macau`s average room rate (US$78) is still almost US$60 behind its neighbour Hong Kong. However, with new hotels and casinos set to enter the city and with more than one billion prospective gamblers on its doorstep, there is plenty of potential for Macau to grow its average room rate further.

Macau revPAR performance and visitor arrivals 2000-2004
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Las Vegas Strip arrives in Asia

When the casino market was opened up to foreign investors in 2002, ending tycoon Stanley Ho`s 40 year gambling monopoly, many world renowned hotel companies put Macau in their sights. With an estimated revenue of over US$5 billion in Macau`s casinos in 2004, combined with the ever increasing disposable income of the Asian middle class, no hotel company would want to miss out on this potential jackpot.

One of the main projects currently underway is the Cotai Strip development, modelled on the famous stretch of luxury hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. Spearheaded by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, an estimated US$6 billion will be invested in the first phase of the development. This is scheduled for completion in 2007 and will have 10,000 hotel rooms, entertainment and business facilities plus an area for concerts and sporting events.

Hotel companies due to operate on the Cotai Strip include Four Seasons Hotels, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International, Hilton Hotels, Regal Hotels, Dorsett Hotel Group, InterContinental Hotels and Las Vegas Sands. The Cotai Strip is well on its way to emerging as an international tourism destination. It took Las Vegas 75 years but the plan is to repeat this feat in Macau in less than three years.

Also under construction by Wynn Resorts Limited is the Wynn Macau. Due to open in 2006, the 600-room hotel-casino will be located on a 16 acre site near Macau`s inner harbour. This is directly opposite the city`s best known hotel-casino, Hotel Lisboa.

Winning streak?

It`s a little early to predict what impact these new openings will have on hotel performance in Macau. However, with eased travel restrictions filtering through mainland China and improvements in infrastructure throughout the Pearl River Delta region, it is expected tourist arrivals will continue to grow. As the government continues to promote the city and more investment is pumped into new projects, the profile of Macau as an international tourism destination will improve. In turn, this will attract more visitors and investment helping to boost hotel performance figures even further.

Shangri-La Asia has become the latest top-tier hotelier to bet on Macau's burgeoning tourism and hospitality sector.

Mr Angelini said Shangri-La aimed to manage two hotels in Macau with a total of 1,500 rooms. "There are a number of conversations taking place," he said. "We are negotiating purely on management contracts and won't run casinos."

Shangri-La expects the strength in global business and leisure travel will gain momentum in the peak season in the latter half of the year.

Shangri-La's net profit in the first half was trimmed by US$ 26.5 million as a result of new accounting rules.

October 7, 2005

Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group announced that it has agreed to sign a long term contract to manage its second luxury hotel in Macau, which will be part of the prestigious mixed-use complex soon to be developed on a prime site on the Macau waterfront. The overall project, which will be owned and developed through a joint venture between Shun Tak Holdings and Hongkong Land, is scheduled to open in 2009.

The 2.6 million square foot mixed-use project is being developed in the Nape waterfront region and will afford stunning views towards Nam Van Lake, the Macau Tower and Taipa Island. The overall complex will comprise a residential development, an extensive upscale retail centre, serviced apartments and the luxury Mandarin Oriental hotel. The development will be directly connected to the MGM Grand Casino.

Mandarin Oriental’s second property in Macau will be designed as a chic, intimate and contemporary hotel, featuring 210 spacious guestrooms including 42 suites, all of which afford panoramic views of aspects of Macau. The Group’s signature in-room technology and sophisticated entertainment systems will be an integral part of the overall design. In keeping with other locations where the Group has two Mandarin Oriental properties, both Macau hotels will be diverse in style, offering different facets of luxury. They will also appeal to alternative audiences given their different size and design.

Innovative and stylish dining options will be a key component of the hotel, incorporating an all-day dining venue, a chic signature restaurant, lobby lounge and bar. The hotel will also feature well-defined meeting and function space, including a 4,000 square foot ballroom and four additional fully-functional meeting rooms, all equipped with state-of-the-art technology. For the business traveller, the property will offer a full-service business centre.

The Group’s award-winning spa concept will be a significant component of the hotel, offering holistic rejuvenation and relaxation in a tranquil, meditative setting. Incorporating 12 private treatment rooms, the Spa will provide a comprehensive range of wellness, beauty and massage programmes including some of Mandarin Oriental’s exclusive holistic signature treatments. The overall 16,000 square foot spa and health facilities will also encompass a fully-equipped gymnasium and a large outdoor swimming pool.

Edouard Ettedgui, Chief Executive of Mandarin Oriental said, “Macau is fast becoming one of Asia’s most popular destinations, and we are delighted to be developing our second property in the enclave. We are very comfortable at the prospect of having two luxury properties here, especially given the complementary nature of the two hotels. We look forward to working with both Shun Tak Holdings and Hongkong Land in creating another world-class Mandarin Oriental experience.”

Dr Ho, Chairman of Shun Tak said, “We are delighted to continue our partnership with Mandarin Oriental and look forward to developing a second award-winning luxury hotel in Macau.”

Nicholas Sallnow-Smith, Chief Executive of Hongkong Land, said, “Mandarin Oriental has a strong track record of success with managing premier hotel properties. We are confident that this hotel will enhance Macau’s status as a leading destination city in Asia.”

Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group is the award-winning owner and operator of some of the world’s most prestigious hotels and resorts, currently operating 22 luxury hotels with a further 7 under development in Tokyo (2005), Prague and Riviera Maya, Mexico (2006), Boston and Grand Cayman (2007), Chicago (2008) and Macau (2009). In total, Mandarin Oriental now operates, or has under development, more than 8,000 rooms in 17 countries with 13 hotels in Asia, 11 in the Americas and five in Europe.

Cotai Strip, which is a stretch of land between Macau's Coloane and Taipa Island (hence the name) is where most new resorts and casinos are being developed in Macau. http://www.macauresorts.com has good resources on resorts in Macau.

number of resorts are under construction now in macau, and these resorts are scheduled to complete before 2010