MACAO, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Visitors on package tours to China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) rose by 24.6 percent year-on-year to 917,000 in November, with a month-to-month increase of 14.8 percent, the SAR's statistics department said on Friday.

Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that package tour visitors from the Chinese mainland (744,000), South Korea (48,000) and China's Taiwan region (46,000) went up by 26.2 percent, 41.5 percent and 23.0 percent respectively year-on-year.

In the first 11 months of 2017, visitors on package tours totalled 7.721 million up by 12.9 percent year-on-year.

There were 110 hotels and guesthouses operating at the end of November, an increase of three year-on-year. The number of guest rooms grew by 2.5 percent year-on-year to 37,000, with five-star hotel rooms rising by 2.9 percent to 22,000, accounting for 60.1 percent of the total.

The average occupancy rate of hotels and guesthouses stood at 90.4 percent, up by 3.3 percentage points year-on-year.

In the first 11 months of 2017, guests of hotels and guesthouses totalled 11.951 million, up by 10.4 percent year-on-year. The average occupancy rate of hotels and guesthouses rose by 3.7 percentage points to 86.4 percent.