{"id":6160,"date":"2020-05-04T10:25:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T10:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6160"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:34:33","slug":"macau-ggr-gaming-plunged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-gaming-plunged","title":{"rendered":"Macau: GGR tumbles 96.8% in April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau GGR hits just MOP754 million (US$94.4million) as the impact of the Coronavirus crisis continues to be felt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The <em><strong>Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau (DICJ)<\/strong><\/em> reported a fall in gross gaming revenue of 96.8 per cent year-on-year in April 2020 to MOP754 million (US$94.4million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first four months of the year generated MOP31.2 billion in accumulated gaming results, a 68.7 per cent year-on-year decrease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was driven by the two-week closure of all casino venues in the city and the border restrictions that remain in place to contain the spread of Coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has seen visitor numbers reach record lows. In 1Q20, visitor arrivals decreased by 69 per cent year-on-year to 3.2 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gaming-visitors-fall\"><em><strong>In March, visitor numbers were down 94 per cent year on year.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is expected that the lifting of travel restrictions and the loosening of measures in the neighbouring province of Guandong could fuel a recovery in the following months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau GGR hits just MOP754 million (US$94.4million) as the impact of the Coronavirus crisis continues to be felt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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) plummeted by 96.8% year-on-year in April 2020 to MOP754 million, driven by casino closures and stringent border restrictions due to the Coronavirus crisis. Accumulated GGR for the first four months of the year decreased by 68.7%, with visitor arrivals reaching record lows. A recovery is anticipated with the potential easing of travel restrictions in Guangdong.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau (DICJ)","focusai_location":"Macau, Guangdong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Recovery Timeline?","query":"What specific metrics and policy changes, beyond Guangdong travel easing, are critical indicators for a sustained GGR recovery trajectory in Macau, and what is the projected timeline for reaching pre-crisis revenue levels?"},{"label":"Operator Liquidity Impact?","query":"How are Macau's major concessionaires managing their liquidity and debt covenants given the prolonged period of minimal GGR, and what are the implications for their capital expenditure plans?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,161,16338,163,158],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-6160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","category-slider-home","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160","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=6160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777010435,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions\/777010435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}