{"id":34980,"date":"2022-11-01T08:15:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=34980"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:25:24","slug":"macau-ggr-up-31-6-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-31-6-in-october","title":{"rendered":"Macau GGR up 31.6% in October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Macau’s gross gaming revenue came in at MOP3.90bn (US$482.3m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- Macau’s GGR was up 31.6 per cent month-on-month in October, from MOP2.96bn (US$366.3m) to MOP3.90bn (US$482.3m). It’s the second month of improvement after Macau’s Covid-related shutdown in July. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GGR was boosted by Golden week<\/a>, which saw 182,000 visitors arrive in Macau between October 1 and 7, including 163,000 from mainland China. The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) reported an average daily volume of 26,000 visitors in the holiday period, up 32.8 per cent from September’s average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, when compared to last year<\/a>, Macau’s October GGR was down 10.7 per cent from MOP4.37bn (US$544m). Macau\u2019s GGR for the first ten months of 2022 <\/strong>combined stands at MOP35.72bn, down 50.5 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau is again on alert due to new cases of Covid-19. On Sunday (October 30), the <\/strong>MGM Cotai<\/a> integrated resort was sealed off for 48 hours after a casino table croupier<\/strong> tested positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Macau’s gross gaming revenue came in at MOP3.90bn (US$482.3m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21862,"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 October Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) reached MOP3.90bn (US$482.3m), marking a 31.6% month-on-month increase, primarily driven by the Golden Week holiday and increased visitor arrivals from mainland China. Despite this sequential recovery, the GGR remains down 10.7% year-on-year and 50.5% for the first ten months of 2022, with new COVID-19 cases, such as the MGM Cotai integrated resort closure, posing ongoing operational risks.","focusai_entities":"Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), MGM Cotai","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau GGR Outlook","query":"What is the projected GGR trajectory for Macau in Q4 2022, considering the persistent COVID-19 related operational disruptions and the impact of Golden Week's transient boost?"},{"label":"Operational Resilience Strategies","query":"How are integrated resort operators in Macau adapting their governance frameworks and contingency plans to mitigate the financial and operational impact of intermittent COVID-19 related shutdowns?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-34980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","category-slider-home","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34980","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=34980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35013,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34980\/revisions\/35013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}