{"id":777031041,"date":"2025-09-01T07:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777031041"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:38:45","slug":"macau-ggr-reaches-highest-monthly-total-since-the-pandemic-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-reaches-highest-monthly-total-since-the-pandemic-in-august","title":{"rendered":"Macau GGR reaches highest monthly total since Covid-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gross gaming revenue amounted to MOP22.16bn (US$2.76bn) in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has reported that Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR) was MOP22.16bn (US$2.76bn)<\/strong> in August. That\u2019s an increase of 12.2 per cent in year-on-year terms and slightly higher than July\u2019s GGR<\/a> of MOP22.13bn (US$2.73bn). That makes it the best monthly performance<\/a> since January 2020, just before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cumulatively, Macau\u2019s GGR for the first eight months of 2025 was MOP163.05bn (US$19.11bn), up 7.2 per cent year-on-year. The figure was 11.7 per cent below pre-pandemic levels (MOP198.22bn \/ US$24.75bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July,\u00a0the\u00a0Legislative Assembly<\/strong>\u00a0passed the\u00a02025 fiscal budget<\/a>\u00a0amendment bill, which forecasts annual gaming tax revenue of\u00a0MOP79.8bn (US$9.87bn)<\/strong>, 5 per cent lower than previously expected. The government cut its GGR estimate from MOP240bn ($29.69bn) to MOP228bn ($28.2bn). At the time of the revised forecast,\u00a0Ho In Mui<\/strong>, deputy director of the Financial Services Bureau, cited global economic conditions and changes in tourist consumption patterns as factors.
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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Sands China celebrates 1.1 billionth visitor in Macau<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gross gaming revenue amounted to MOP22.16bn (US$2.76bn) in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777031044,"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 Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) reached MOP22.16bn (US$2.76bn) in August, marking a 12.2% year-on-year increase and its strongest monthly performance since January 2020. Cumulatively, GGR for the first eight months of 2025 stands at MOP163.05bn, up 7.2% year-on-year, though remaining 11.7% below pre-pandemic levels. This performance follows the Legislative Assembly's recent amendment to the 2025 fiscal budget, which lowered the annual gaming tax revenue forecast and the overall GGR estimate due to global economic conditions and evolving tourist consumption patterns.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), Legislative Assembly, Financial Services Bureau, Ho In Mui, Sands China","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau GGR Outlook","query":"Given the revised 2025 GGR forecast and the 11.7% gap to pre-pandemic levels, what specific policy initiatives or market diversification strategies are Macau authorities and concessionaires implementing to bridge this deficit and mitigate global economic headwinds?"},{"label":"Impact on Concessionaires","query":"How do the August GGR figures and the government's adjusted tax revenue forecast specifically impact the EBITDA and capital expenditure plans of the major Macau concessionaires for the remainder of 2025 and into 2026?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338,24628,158],"tags":[12436,24885,257],"class_list":["post-777031041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-highlight-of-the-week","category-slider-home","tag-casinos","tag-casinos-in-macau","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777031041","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=777031041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777031041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777031098,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777031041\/revisions\/777031098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777031044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777031041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777031041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777031041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}