{"id":777029465,"date":"2025-07-24T10:23:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777029465"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:42:10","slug":"philippines-ir-casinos-report-us1-65bn-in-ggr-in-first-half-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-ir-casinos-report-us1-65bn-in-ggr-in-first-half-of-2025","title":{"rendered":"Philippine IRs report US$1.65bn in GGR for the first half of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PHP16bn was paid to PAGCOR as licence fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Philippines.- Integrated resort (IR) casinos in the Philippines generated PHP93.36bn (US$1.65bn) in gross gaming revenues (GGR) in the first half of 2025, according to the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR). Chairman and CEO Alejandro H. Tengco noted that the venues accounted for nearly half of the local gaming industry\u2019s total GGR of PHP215bn (US$3.79bn) from January to June 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his welcome address at the Philippine Hotel Connect 2025, organised by the Philippine Hotel Owners Association, Tengco noted that PHP16bn was paid to PAGCOR as licence fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alejandro Tengco, PAGCOR\u2019s chairman and CEO. Photo: PAGCOR.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He commented: \u201cWe have seen time and again how a thriving hospitality sector can drive employment, fuel trade, revive local enterprises, and bridge communities. And nowhere is this more evident than in the huge tourism contributions from our licensed integrated resort casinos within and outside Metro Manila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTheir contributions are concrete examples of how tourism, hospitality, and gaming \u2013 when aligned and responsibly managed \u2013 become a catalyst for national resilience and progress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tengco also highlighted PAGCOR\u2019s order to remove billboard ads for online gambling<\/a> and its memorandum of understanding with the Ad Standards Council to implement stricter gaming advertising guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As the gaming industry expands, so must our safeguards. Hence, we have taken a firm stance against the proliferation of illegal and unregulated gaming operations that offer no safety nets or protection to players and, more importantly, no remittance or any form of revenue to the government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first quarter, gross gaming revenue (GGR) in the Philippines was PHP104.12bn<\/a> (US$1.88bn). The tally was up 27.44 per cent year-on-year. The e-games and e-bingo segment was the leading revenue generator for the first time, contributing PHP51.39bn (US$927m), or 49.36 per cent of total GGR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Philippines sees record GGR as e-games and bingo becomes leading segment<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PHP16bn was paid to PAGCOR as licence fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":777027978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Philippine gaming industry generated PHP215bn (US$3.79bn) in GGR during H1 2025, with integrated resort casinos contributing PHP93.36bn and remitting PHP16bn in licence fees to PAGCOR. PAGCOR's Chairman and CEO, Alejandro H. Tengco, underscored the sector's economic contributions and reinforced the agency's commitment to stricter regulatory compliance, including new guidelines for online gambling advertising and combating illegal operations. Notably, the e-games and e-bingo segment led Q1 2025 GGR, reaching PHP51.39bn.","focusai_entities":"PAGCOR, Alejandro H. Tengco, Philippine Hotel Owners Association, Ad Standards Council","focusai_location":"Philippines, Metro Manila","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact of Ad Guidelines?","query":"What specific changes are anticipated in the advertising guidelines for online gambling, and how will these impact B2C marketing strategies and compliance costs for licensed operators?"},{"label":"E-games Growth Sustainability?","query":"Given the significant GGR contribution from e-games and e-bingo, what are PAGCOR's projections for the sustained growth of this gaming vertical, and what regulatory or market factors could influence its trajectory?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,24628,158,16333],"tags":[23632,405,128],"class_list":["post-777029465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","category-highlight-of-the-week","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-integrated-resorts","tag-pagcor","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777029465","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\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777029465"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777029465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777029478,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777029465\/revisions\/777029478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777027978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777029465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777029465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777029465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}