{"id":777016391,"date":"2024-06-13T09:40:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T12:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777016391"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:11:47","slug":"macau-ranked-top-gambling-destination-by-online-betting-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ranked-top-gambling-destination-by-online-betting-guide","title":{"rendered":"Macau ranked top gambling destination by Online Betting Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The city beat up competitors like Singapore and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Macau has been named the top gambling destination by Online Betting Guide (OLBG), surpassing Asian rival Singapore and US cities like Philadelphia and Las Vegas. In OLBG\u2019s Global Casino Index, <strong>Macau achieved a score of 9.32<\/strong>. Philadelphia and Las Vegas followed with scores of 7.24 and 7.2 respectively. Singapore and Manila were ranked 4th and 6th with scores of 6.84 and 6.68.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The index uses the World Casino Directory, AirDNA and Google Keyword Planner to measure various aspects. LBG reported a nearly 50 per cent increase in global searches for local casinos over the past year. Macau was the subject of 363,700 searches in the year, compared to 151,100 and 2,747,000 for Philadelphia and Las Vegas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-333-8-in-2023\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau\u2019s GGR for 2023<\/a> was MOP183.06bn, up 333.8 per cent&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gaming-revenue-down-51-in-2022\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">when compared to 2022<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-29-7-in-may\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GGR for May<\/a> was&nbsp;MOP20.19bn (US$2.51bn), the city\u2019s best monthly performance since borders reopened after the Covid-19 pandemic in January 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city beat up competitors like Singapore and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26764,"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 has been designated the top global gambling destination by Online Betting Guide (OLBG), surpassing key competitors like Singapore and Las Vegas, based on an index incorporating various data points. The region demonstrated exceptional GGR growth in 2023 and the initial five months of 2024, with May 2024 marking its strongest monthly performance since post-pandemic border reopenings. This market resurgence is further underscored by significant global search interest metrics.","focusai_entities":"Online Betting Guide (OLBG), World Casino Directory, AirDNA, Google Keyword Planner","focusai_location":"Macau, Singapore, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Manila","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.8), marketing_crm (0.9), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau Growth Sustainability?","query":"What are the underlying factors contributing to Macau's sustained GGR growth, and how are competing jurisdictions like Singapore and Las Vegas adapting their strategies to this evolving market dynamic?"},{"label":"Index Methodology Impact?","query":"How does OLBG's Global Casino Index methodology, incorporating World Casino Directory, AirDNA, and Google Keyword Planner data, provide a more comprehensive or nuanced view compared to traditional GGR-only rankings, and what are the strategic implications for destination marketing?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777016391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016391","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=777016391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777016420,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016391\/revisions\/777016420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777016391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777016391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777016391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}