{"id":777016062,"date":"2024-06-03T08:31:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777016062"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:35:16","slug":"macau-ggr-up-29-7-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-29-7-in-may","title":{"rendered":"Macau GGR up 29.7% in May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gross gaming revenue was the highest since January 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The&nbsp;<strong>Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau<\/strong>&nbsp;has reported that Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR) for May was&nbsp;MOP20.19bn (US$2.51bn). That\u2019s an increase of 8.9 per cent&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-april-ggr-up-26-per-cent-year-on-year\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">month-on-month<\/a>&nbsp;and 29.7 per cent when compared to May 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the city&#8217;s best monthly performance since January 2023, when borders reopened after the Covid-19 pandemic. The figure remains down 22.2 per cent against May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rise in revenue was mainly attributed to <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-receives-604395-visitors-during-labour-day-holiday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Labour Day holiday<\/a>, a five-day public holiday in Mainland China, which brought 604,395 visitors to Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cumulatively, Macau\u2019s GGR for the first five months of 2024 was MOP$96.06bn (US$11.9bn), up 47.9 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gross gaming revenue was the highest since January 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777013253,"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 May reached MOP20.19bn (US$2.51bn), marking an 8.9% month-on-month and 29.7% year-on-year increase, making it the highest since January 2023. This surge was primarily driven by the Labour Day holiday, attracting significant visitor numbers from Mainland China. Despite strong recovery, the figure remains 22.2% below May 2019 levels, with cumulative GGR for the first five months of 2024 at MOP$96.06bn, up 47.9% year-on-year.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau","focusai_location":"Macau, Mainland China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.75), 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 Trajectory?","query":"What is the projected timeline for Macau's GGR to fully recover to pre-pandemic (May 2019) levels, considering current growth rates and anticipated visitor trends?"},{"label":"Holiday Impact Analysis?","query":"Beyond the Labour Day holiday, what specific marketing and operational strategies are Macau's integrated resorts implementing to sustain GGR growth during non-peak periods?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777016062","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\/777016062","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=777016062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777016096,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016062\/revisions\/777016096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777013253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777016062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777016062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777016062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}