{"id":777015675,"date":"2024-05-21T09:20:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777015675"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:04:40","slug":"macau-non-gaming-spending-up-35-9-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-non-gaming-spending-up-35-9-in-q1","title":{"rendered":"Macau non-gaming spending up 35.9% in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Non-gaming spending reached MOP20.35bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-\u00a0Macau\u2019s\u00a0Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has reported that non-gaming spending by visitors in Q1 was MOP20.35bn (US$2.54bn). The figure up 35.9 per cent in year-on-year and 20.2 per cent\u00a0when\u00a0compared to pre-Covid 19 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spending by overnight visitors rose by 33.1 per cent  year-on-year to MOP16.4bn. The figure for same-day visitors was up 48.5 per cent at MOP3.9bn. On a per capita basis, each\u00a0tourist\u2019s\u00a0average expenditure mounted to MOP2,293, down 24.3 per cent in year-on-year terms but up 40 per cent\u00a0when\u00a0compared with the same quarter in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Individual spending from the city&#8217;s\u00a0biggest market, mainland China, fell 31.6 per cent to MOP2,665, while Hong Kong travellers&#8217; individual spending was down 14.4 per cent. Taiwanese travellers spent MOP2,040, up 10.6 per cent. Some 48 per cent of spending was on shopping. Accommodation accounted for 23 per cent and food and beverages 20.9 per cent.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-non-gaming-spending-up-292-in-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">non-gaming spending by visitors reached MOP71.25bn (US$8.8bn)<\/a>, up 292 per cent\u00a0when\u00a0compared to the previous year and 11.2 per cent\u00a0when\u00a0compared to 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-gaming spending reached MOP20.35bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26708,"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 Q1 2024 non-gaming visitor spending reached MOP20.35bn (US$2.54bn), marking a 35.9% year-on-year increase and a 20.2% rise above pre-Covid levels. While aggregate spending surged, per capita expenditure declined by 24.3% year-on-year, notably from mainland China visitors, with shopping, accommodation, and food & beverage dominating spending categories.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Per Capita Spending Impact","query":"How does the observed decline in per capita non-gaming expenditure, particularly from the mainland China segment, influence the yield management and profitability projections for Macau's integrated resort operators, despite the overall increase in aggregate non-gaming revenue?"},{"label":"Non-Gaming Vertical Strategy","query":"Given the reported spending distribution across shopping, accommodation, and F&B, what strategic adjustments are Macau's integrated resorts implementing in their non-gaming vertical development and marketing to optimize revenue per visitor?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777015675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015675","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=777015675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777015700,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015675\/revisions\/777015700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777015675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777015675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777015675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}