{"id":777030175,"date":"2025-08-11T08:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777030175"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:14:24","slug":"per-capita-non-gaming-spending-of-visitors-dropped-in-q2-in-macau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/per-capita-non-gaming-spending-of-visitors-dropped-in-q2-in-macau","title":{"rendered":"Macau per-capita non-gaming spend drops in Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Overnight visitors and same-day visitors’ per capita spending fell by 2.1 per cent and 19.3 per cent respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) has reported that non-gaming spending among visitors rose by 4.6 per cent year-on-year to MOP18.25bn (US$2.2bn) in the second quarter of 2025. Overnight visitors spent MOP14.64bn (US$1.8bn) and same-day visitors MOP3.61bn (US$447m), up by 4.4 per cent and 5.5 per cent respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, per-capita non-gaming spending dropped by 12.3 per cent year-on-year to MOP1,950 (US$242). The figure for overnight visitors was MOP3,663 (US$454) and same-day visitors MOP673 (US$63), down by 2.1 per cent and 19.3 per cent respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitors spent mainly on shopping (41.5 per cent), followed by accommodation (24.9 per cent) and food & beverages (22.5 per cent). The share of visitors\u2019 spending on food & beverages was up whereas the share on shopping saw a decrease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Per-capita non-gaming spending of visitors from the Chinese mainland (MOP2,203), the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong SAR; MOP1,000) and the Taiwan region (MOP2,031) decreased by 15 per cent, 9.1 per cent and 5.1 per cent year-on-year, respectively. Per-capita spending of international visitors (MOP2,134) was down by 10.2 per cent year-on-year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The per-capita non-gaming spending of visitors from the Republic of Korea (MOP2,728) fell by 1.5 per cent year-on-year, whereas spending of those from Japan (MOP2,274) rose by 18.5 per cent. For Southeast Asian markets, spending of visitors from Thailand (MOP2,455) dropped by 8.8 per cent year-on-year, while spending of those from Singapore (MOP3,201) and Malaysia (MOP1,799) registered increases of 22 per cent and 6.1 per cent, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first half of 2025<\/strong>, non-gaming spending was up by 0.2 per cent year-on-year to MOP37.86bn (US$4.73m), with that of same-day visitors (MOP7.85bn) rising by 7 per cent while that of overnight visitors (MOP30.01bn) falling by 1.4 per cent. The per-capita non-gaming spend (MOP1,970) dropped by 12.8 per cent year-on-year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July, DSEC reported that there were 19,218,540 visitor arrivals to Macau in the first half of 2025<\/a>, up by 14.9 per cent year-on-year. Same-day visitors (11,182,913) and overnight visitors (8,035,627) rose by 25.8 per cent and 2.6 per cent, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cumulative average length of stay of visitors decreased by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.1 days, due to the growth in the proportion of same-day visitors. The average durations for same-day visitors (0.2 day) and overnight visitors (2.3 days) both remained unchanged year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Macau visitor numbers rise in July<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overnight visitors and same-day visitors’ per capita spending fell by 2.1 per cent and 19.3 per cent respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777030185,"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 non-gaming spending increased by 4.6% year-on-year to MOP18.25bn in Q2 2025, and by 0.2% in H1 2025, driven by higher visitor arrivals. However, per-capita non-gaming spending significantly declined by 12.3% in Q2 and 12.8% in H1, primarily due to a surge in lower-spending same-day visitors and reduced expenditure from key source markets. This indicates a challenge for the region's economic diversification strategy despite growth in total non-gaming revenue.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, Chinese mainland, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Taiwan region, Republic of Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Non-Gaming Strategy Adjustments?","query":"Given the significant decline in per-capita non-gaming spend, what strategic adjustments are Macau's integrated resort operators implementing to enhance value capture from the evolving visitor demographic?"},{"label":"Diversification Policy Recalibration?","query":"How will the Macau SAR government recalibrate its economic diversification policies to address the observed shift towards lower-spending same-day visitors and the overall reduction in per-capita non-gaming expenditure?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[257,24680],"class_list":["post-777030175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777030175","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=777030175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777030175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777030203,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777030175\/revisions\/777030203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777030185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777030175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777030175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777030175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}