{"id":777010752,"date":"2023-11-01T06:51:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777010752"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:36:11","slug":"macau-ggr-up-30-6-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-30-6-in-october","title":{"rendered":"Macau GGR up 30.6% in October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau&#8217;s casino gross gaming revenue was the highest since January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The <strong>Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau <\/strong>has reported that Macau\u2019s GGR for October was up 30.6 per cent\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-down-13-2-in-september\" target=\"_blank\">month-on-month<\/a>, rising from MOP14.94bn in September to MOP19.50bn (US$2.42bn). GGR was up 400.2 per cent when compared to last October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The figure is the highest since January 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic began, when GGR was MOP22.13bn. <strong>October Golden Week<\/strong>, which ran from September 29 to October 6, contributed to the rise. <strong>The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO)<\/strong>\u00a0has reported that\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-sees-record-visitor-numbers-during-october-golden-week\" target=\"_blank\">a total of 932,365 people visited Macau during the national holiday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cumulatively, Macau\u2019s GGR for the first ten months of 2023 was MOP148.44bn (US$18.44bn), up 315.6 per cent compared to the same period in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau&#8217;s casino gross gaming revenue was the highest since January 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":32940,"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 October 2023 reached MOP19.50bn (US$2.42bn), marking a 30.6% month-on-month and 400.2% year-on-year increase, the highest since January 2020. This surge was primarily driven by the Golden Week holiday, attracting nearly a million visitors. Cumulatively, Macau's GGR for the first ten months of 2023 stands at MOP148.44bn (US$18.44bn), up 315.6% compared to the same period in 2022.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, Macau Government Tourism Office","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Sustainability","query":"What are the projections for Macau's GGR sustainability beyond holiday-driven peaks, considering evolving mainland China tourism policies and regional competition?"},{"label":"Operator Performance Impact","query":"How has this GGR performance translated into individual casino operator EBITDA and market share shifts, and what are the implications for their capital expenditure plans?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777010752","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\/777010752","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=777010752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777041040,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010752\/revisions\/777041040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777010752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777010752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777010752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}