{"id":777023562,"date":"2025-03-03T10:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T13:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777023562"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:15:13","slug":"macau-ggr-rises-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-rises-in-february","title":{"rendered":"Macau GGR rises in February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gross gaming revenue amounted to MOP19.74bn (US$2.46bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) <\/strong>has reported that Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR) for February was MOP19.74bn (US$2.46bn). That\u2019s an increase of 6.8 per cent in year-on-year terms<\/a> and a rise of 8.2 per cent sequentially<\/a>. GGR was 77.8 per cent of February 2019’s level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The figure was boosted by the Chinese New Year (CNY) holiday, which took place from January 28 to February 4. GGR averaged MOP780m (US$97.3m) <\/strong>per day over the holiday period for an aggregate of MOP6.24bn. According to Seaport Research Partners<\/a>, the figure was down 1 per cent compared to CNY 2024 and 8 per cent compared to 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cumulatively, Macau\u2019s GGR for the first two months of 2025 was MOP38bn, up 0.5 per cent from the prior-year period. Macau\u2019s\u00a0GGR for 2024 was MOP226.78bn (US$28.39bn)<\/strong>, up 23.8 per cent\u00a0year-on-year but down 22.45 per cent compared to 2019 levels (MOP292.45bn). The result surpassed the Macau government\u2019s expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau hotel occupancy rate reaches 94.7% in January<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Macau Hotel Association<\/strong> has reported that the average occupancy rate at hotels in Macau rose by 3.7 percentage points in year-on-year terms to 94.7 per cent in January. The occupancy rate for 5-star hotels <\/strong>was up 4.5 per cent while room rates declined by 2.3 per cent year-on-year to MOP1,550 (US$194). The room rate of 4-star hotels <\/strong>was up 13.2 per cent to MOP1,215.3 and the room rate for 3-star hotels<\/strong> was up 12.1 per cent to MOP 1,032.6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some 3.64 million people visited Macau in January<\/a>. The figure was up 27.4 per cent in year-on-year terms. Same-day visitors rose by 45.6 per cent year-on-year and overnight visitors by 7.9 per cent. The average length of stay shortened by 0.2 of a day year-on-year to 1 day due to the growth in the proportion of same-day visitors. The duration of stay for same-day visitors rose by 0.1 to 0.3 of a day while that for overnight visitors remained unchanged at 2.2 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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