{"id":777015161,"date":"2024-05-02T09:25:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T12:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777015161"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:38:32","slug":"macau-april-ggr-up-26-per-cent-year-on-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-april-ggr-up-26-per-cent-year-on-year","title":{"rendered":"Macau: April GGR up 26 per cent\u00a0year-on-year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>April GGR was MOP18.5bn (US$2.29bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The\u00a0<strong>Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau<\/strong>\u00a0has reported that Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR) for April was down 4.9 per cent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-53-1-in-march\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">month-on-month<\/a>\u00a0at MOP18.5bn (US$2.29bn).\u00a0The figure was\u00a0up 26 per cent\u00a0when\u00a0compared to April 2023 but down 21.4 per cent from the MOP23.6bn (US$2.91bn) reported in April 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-to-reach-at-least-us2-18bn-in-april-analysts-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Analysts at\u00a0Macquarie Equity Research<\/a>\u00a0had forecast that Macau\u2019s GGR\u00a0would reach between MOP17.6bn (US$7.11bn) and MOP18.7bn.\u00a0Cumulatively, Macau\u2019s GGR for the first four months of 2024 was MOP75.87bn (US$9.36bn), up 53.7 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April GGR was MOP18.5bn (US$2.29bn).<\/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 April GGR reached MOP18.5bn (US$2.29bn), marking a 4.9% month-on-month decline but a 26% year-on-year increase compared to April 2023. While falling 21.4% short of pre-pandemic levels, the cumulative GGR for the first four months of 2024 surged 53.7% year-on-year to MOP75.87bn. This indicates a robust market recovery trajectory despite monthly fluctuations, aligning with analyst forecasts.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, Macquarie Equity Research","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Trajectory Analysis","query":"What specific market segments (e.g., VIP vs. mass market, domestic vs. international visitation) are driving the observed month-on-month GGR deceleration in Macau, and what are the implications for operator revenue diversification strategies?"},{"label":"Pre-Pandemic Recovery Outlook","query":"Given the 21.4% deficit compared to April 2019 GGR, what are the revised projections for Macau's full recovery to pre-pandemic revenue levels, considering current visitation trends, infrastructure developments, and regulatory shifts?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777015161","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\/777015161","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=777015161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777015194,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015161\/revisions\/777015194"}],"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=777015161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777015161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777015161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}