{"id":11828,"date":"2020-11-16T21:41:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=11828"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:03:31","slug":"macau-vip-gaming-revenues-grow-55-in-q3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-vip-gaming-revenues-grow-55-in-q3","title":{"rendered":"Macau: VIP gaming revenues grow 55% in Q3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The segment brought in US$288m between July and September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- VIP gross gaming revenues in Macau rose 55.7 per cent in the third quarter (Q3) of the year compared to the prior three-month period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau\u2019s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (<strong><em>DICJ<\/em><\/strong>) reported that the segment brought in MOP2.3bn (US$288m), up from MOP1.5bn (US$187.8m) in Q2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first three months of the year, the VIP segment reported MOP14.8 billion (US$1.85 billion), more in line with results from previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All major casinos saw a <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gaming-revenues-recover-in-october\" target=\"_blank\">rise in visitation in October<\/a><\/em><\/strong> beyond Golden Week. Total GGR was down by 72.5 per cent year-on-year, after a semester with falls of over 90 per cent each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October, gaming operators raised a total of MOP7.27bn, MOP5.05bn more than the previous month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The segment brought in US$288m between July and September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's VIP gross gaming revenues (GGR) experienced a significant 55.7% quarter-on-quarter increase in Q3, reaching US$288m, as reported by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ). This growth in the VIP segment contrasts with a substantial 72.5% year-on-year decline in total GGR, although October saw an uptick in overall gaming revenue and improved visitation post-Golden Week.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, DICJ","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"VIP GGR drivers?","query":"What specific factors contributed to the significant Q-o-Q increase in Macau's VIP GGR despite the substantial Y-o-Y decline in total GGR?"},{"label":"Macau recovery trajectory?","query":"How do the reported VIP GGR figures for Q3 align with the broader recovery trajectory of Macau's gaming market, particularly concerning the shift in player segments and operational capacity?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,161,16338,158],"tags":[725,257],"class_list":["post-11828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-ggr","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777010429,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828\/revisions\/777010429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}