{"id":777013612,"date":"2024-03-01T08:35:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T11:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777013612"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:27:23","slug":"macau-ggr-up-79-1-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-79-1-in-february","title":{"rendered":"Macau GGR up 79.1% in February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>February&#8217;s GGR was MOP18.49bn (US$2.29bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The&nbsp;<strong>Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau&nbsp;<\/strong>has reported that Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR) for February was MOP18.49bn (US$2.29bn). That\u2019s a drop of 4.4 per cent&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-67-in-january\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">month-on-month<\/a>&nbsp;but up 79.1 per cent when compared to last February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>February&#8217;s GGR was below the forecast of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-to-reach-us2-36bn-in-february-analysts-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some analysts who had expected a higher GGR<\/a> during the Chinese New Year holiday period, which ran from February 10 to 17 inclusive. Cumulatively, Macau\u2019s GGR for the first two months of 2024 was MOP37.82bn, up 72.7 per cent from the prior-year period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gdp-to-grow-10-3-in-2024-government-says\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau GDP to grow 10.3% in 2024, government says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February&#8217;s GGR was MOP18.49bn (US$2.29bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21513,"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 registered MOP18.49bn (US$2.29bn), reflecting a 4.4% month-on-month contraction but a robust 79.1% year-on-year expansion. This performance, despite encompassing the Chinese New Year holiday, underperformed certain analyst projections. Cumulatively, the first two months of 2024 yielded MOP37.82bn in GGR, representing a 72.7% increase over the prior-year period.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (0.98), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Analyst Forecast Discrepancy","query":"What specific factors contributed to Macau's February GGR falling below analyst forecasts despite the Chinese New Year holiday period, and what are the implications for Q1 2024 projections?"},{"label":"VIP vs. Mass Segment","query":"Can the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau provide a breakdown of February's GGR by gaming vertical, specifically differentiating between VIP and mass-market contributions, to better understand the underlying growth drivers?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777013612","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\/777013612","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=777013612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777013634,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013612\/revisions\/777013634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777013612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777013612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777013612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}