{"id":29447,"date":"2022-05-02T06:38:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T09:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=29447"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:08:30","slug":"macau-ggr-at-lowest-level-since-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-at-lowest-level-since-september-2020","title":{"rendered":"Macau GGR at lowest level since September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau&#8217;s casino gross gambling revenue for April was down 68.1 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- <strong>The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau<\/strong>\u2018s figures show that GGR for the month of April was down 71.1 per cent\u00a0month-on-month\u00a0from MOP3.67bn (US$454.5m) to MOP2.68bn (US$331m). That&#8217;s the lowest level since September 2020, when the tally was MOP2.2bn, and represents a drop of 68.1 per cent <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-1-01-in-april\" target=\"_blank\">when compared to April 2021<\/a>&#8216;s revenue of MOP8.40bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the DICJ, the decline was mainly due to the rise in Covid-19 cases in mainland China, which affected the arrival of tourists in the city. <strong>Macau\u2019s GGR for the first four months of 2022\u00a0<\/strong>combined stands at MOP20.45bn (US$2.55bn), down 36.2 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Macau GGR could equal 2021 levels if visitor levels remain steady, analysts say<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Professor Davis Fong<\/strong>, director of the Institute for the Study of Commercial Gaming, has suggested that Macau\u2019s GGR could equal 2021 levels as long as the city maintains an average of between&nbsp;<strong>20.000 and 30.000 visitors<\/strong>&nbsp;per day. Fong says this would be possible as long as visitation rises to where it was before the latest Covid-19 surge in Guangdong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As previously reported by Focus Gaming News, some&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-down-19-6-in-march\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">526,912 tourists visited Macau in March<\/a>. That figure represented a drop of 30.2 per cent when compared to last year. However, for the full first quarter of 2022, the number of visiting tourists increased by 8 per cent year-on-year to 1.88 million.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau&#8217;s casino gross gambling revenue for April was down 68.1 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18146,"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 April GGR declined 68.1% year-on-year to MOP2.68bn, marking its lowest level since September 2020, primarily due to reduced tourist arrivals from mainland China amidst rising Covid-19 cases. Year-to-date GGR for the first four months of 2022 is down 36.2% year-on-year, though analysts suggest full-year GGR could match 2021 levels if daily visitor numbers stabilize.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, Professor Davis Fong, Institute for the Study of Commercial Gaming, Focus Gaming News","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Guangdong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau Policy Interventions?","query":"What specific policy interventions could Macau implement to mitigate the impact of mainland China's zero-COVID strategy on tourist visitation and GGR?"},{"label":"Concessionaire Investment Strategy?","query":"How do current GGR trends and visitor projections for Macau influence the capital expenditure and investment strategies of major concessionaires for the remainder of 2022?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-29447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29447","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=29447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29493,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29447\/revisions\/29493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}