{"id":777020739,"date":"2024-11-15T11:45:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T14:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777020739"},"modified":"2026-04-22T04:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:10:09","slug":"gaming-in-macau-government-forecasts-29-7bn-in-revenue-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/gaming-in-macau-government-forecasts-29-7bn-in-revenue-for-2025","title":{"rendered":"Gaming in Macau: government forecasts $29.7bn in revenue for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prediction is part of the 2025 Fiscal Year Budget Proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- Macau\u2019s government has forecast MOP240bn (US$29.7bn) in gross gaming revenue for 2025. That compares to MOP216bn budgeted for this year. The estimation is part of the <strong>financial-year 2025 budget plan<\/strong>, which has been submitted to the Legislative Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposed budget for 2025 anticipates overall revenue of MOP121.09bn (US$15bn) and expenditures of MOP113.38bn (US$14.1bn), resulting in a projected budget surplus of MOP7.7bn ($954m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The <strong>Office of the Chief Executive<\/strong> stated that it expects the recovery momentum of the integrated tourism and leisure businesses for the next fiscal year to continue, with a continuous rise in inbound tourist volume. &#8220;Their travel and consumption patterns may see changes,&#8221; it noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chief executive office added: \u201cConsidering all factors, the fiscal year 2025 gross gaming revenue is estimated to reach MOP240bn. Such is the principal fiscal income that serves as a foundation for the Macau Special Administrative Government in formulating the fiscal year 2025 budget plan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>See also: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tourism-in-macau-non-gaming-spending-up-8-in-first-nine-months-of-the-year\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tourism-in-macau-non-gaming-spending-up-8-in-first-nine-months-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tourism in Macau: non-gaming spending up 8% in first nine months of the year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-expected-to-reach-mop18bn-in-november\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first ten months of 2024<\/a>, Macau\u2019s casino GGR reached MOP190.1bn (US$23.7bn), reflecting a 28.1 per cent year-on-year increase. However, this figure remains 23 per cent lower than the same period in 2019, when GGR amounted to MOP 246.9bn (US$30.8bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prediction is part of the 2025 Fiscal Year Budget Proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":26650,"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 government has projected MOP240bn (US$29.7bn) in Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for fiscal year 2025, an increase from the MOP216bn budgeted for 2024. This forecast, part of the 2025 budget proposal, anticipates continued recovery in integrated tourism and leisure, driven by rising inbound tourist volumes. Despite a 28.1% year-on-year GGR increase in the first ten months of 2024, the projected 2025 figure remains below pre-pandemic 2019 levels.","focusai_entities":"Macau\u2019s government, Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Executive","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Growth Drivers?","query":"What specific policy initiatives or tourism infrastructure developments are anticipated to drive the projected increase in inbound tourist volume and GGR for 2025?"},{"label":"Non-Gaming Revenue Impact?","query":"How does the projected MOP240bn GGR for 2025 correlate with the government's strategy to diversify Macau's economy, particularly regarding non-gaming revenue contributions from integrated resorts?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,158],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-777020739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777020739","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777020739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777020739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777020743,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777020739\/revisions\/777020743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777020739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777020739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777020739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}