{"id":15313,"date":"2021-03-01T16:20:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T16:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=15313"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:27:09","slug":"macau-ggr-declines-8-9-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-declines-8-9-in-february","title":{"rendered":"Macau GGR declines 8.9% in February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Revenues declined to MOP$7.31bn (US$914.5m), compared to MOP8.02bn (US$1.0bn) in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- Macau casinos saw <strong>gross gaming revenues of MOP$7.31bn (US$914.5m) in February,<\/strong> down 8.9 per cent compared to January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The figure was also down <strong>71.2 per cent against February 2019<\/strong>, which saw GGR of MOP$25.37bn (US$3.14bn), but <strong>135.6 per cent higher than February 2020<\/strong>, when all casinos in Macau were closed for 15 days due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau saw its <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-sees-best-monthly-ggr-in-12-months\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>best monthly GGR in 12 months during January<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, when<strong> gaming revenues came in at MOP8bn (US$1bn)<\/strong>, surpassing the months of Golden Week and the Christmas holiday periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, <em><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-fewer-visitors-than-expected-for-cny\" target=\"_blank\">visitor numbers for Chinese New Year<\/a><\/strong><\/em> were down by 76 per cent year-on-year after the Chinese government recommended against travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first two months of 2021 combined,<strong> Macau\u2019s GGR stands at MOP$15.34bn (US$1.92bn)<\/strong>, down 39.2 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revenues declined to MOP$7.31bn (US$914.5m), compared to MOP8.02bn (US$1.0bn) in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"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 Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for February declined to MOP$7.31bn (US$914.5m), an 8.9% decrease from January's MOP$8.02bn. This downturn, despite January's 12-month high, is primarily attributed to a 76% year-on-year reduction in Chinese New Year visitor numbers following government travel advisories. Combined GGR for the first two months of 2021 stands at MOP$15.34bn, down 39.2% year-on-year.","focusai_entities":"","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Q1 GGR Outlook","query":"What is the projected GGR trajectory for Macau in Q2 2021, considering the persistent travel restrictions and the pace of vaccination rollouts in key feeder markets?"},{"label":"Policy Impact Analysis","query":"How might the Chinese government's continued travel advisories and potential future policy shifts impact Macau's long-term GGR recovery and diversification efforts?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-15313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15365,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313\/revisions\/15365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}