Macau Launches Website to Promote Budget Hotels

Macau may well have some of the biggest hotels in the world, but the world's leading casino destination also has its fair share of budget hotels.

To address this, a new website constructed and operated by the Macau Hoteliers and Innkeepers Association with the support from Macau Government Tourist Office has been launched to help boosting local budget hotels' competitiveness and capability of operation as well as fostering the diversified development of tourist markets.

macau-budgethotels.org is a non-profit website available in three languages, namely traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese and English. The website content includes information of the budget hotels, online room-booking service for direct transactions between consumers and operators, travel information, etc.

While some budget hotels are not prepared yet to run their operation electronically, 8 budget hotels have joined the online room-booking service at the first stage with the assistance of Macau Hoteliers and Innkeepers Association, with over 500 rooms available for booking, comprising one third of same-category rooms operated in Macau.

At the moment guests, after receiving a booking confirmation from the hotels, must settle the payment due to the property upon check-in. The website is expected to also launch an online payment service soon. Clients will then be able to pay online through Visa, Master or Unionpay cards.

Currently, there are 13 two-star hotels, 4 three-star guest houses and 29 two-star guest houses, providing close to 1,500 rooms in Macau.

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