{"id":777031742,"date":"2025-09-16T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777031742"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:07:48","slug":"macau-has-high-expectations-for-octobers-golden-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-has-high-expectations-for-octobers-golden-week","title":{"rendered":"Expectations high for Macau October Golden Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The October Golden Week runs from September 29 to October 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- Record visitors are expected for the October Golden Week<\/strong> holiday period from September 29 to October 6. Andy Wu<\/strong>, president of the Macau Tourism Industry Association<\/strong>, told Macau Daily that he predicts that tourist arrivals will exceed last year\u2019s daily average of 140,000 visitors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wu said additional bus services and temporary traffic restrictions at popular attractions are planned to deal with the influx.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysts expect daily gross gambling revenue to average MOP1.05bn (US$131m) through the eight-day holiday period. That comes after GGR reached MOP22.16bn (US$2.76bn) in August<\/a>, the best monthly performance since January 2020, just before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jefferies analysts Anne Ling <\/strong>and Jingjue Pei<\/strong> expect GGR growth of between 13.8 per cent and 15.3 per cent year-on-year for the third quarter of 2025 amid events such as the NBA China Games and Macau Grand Prix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citigroup<\/strong> has revised upwards<\/a> its gross gaming revenue (GGR) forecast for the full year to MOP248.6bn (US$31.1bn), up from a previous estimate of MOP235.7bn (US$29.15bn).\u00a0Analysts George Choi<\/strong> and Timothy Chau<\/strong> noted that this would imply 14-per cent year-on-year growth for the rest of the year. They noted that casino operators are \u201cstrategically organising some heavyweight events after Golden Week,\u201d including Jackson Wang concerts at the Galaxy Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf these events are successful in boosting gaming volumes post-Golden Week, our October GGR forecast of MOP$23bn (US$2.86bn) could prove conservative,\u201d the analysts said.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n\t\t\tSee also:<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Citigroup raises Macau full-year GGR forecast<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The October Golden Week runs from September 29 to October 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777031747,"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 anticipates record visitor arrivals during the October Golden Week, with analysts projecting robust daily Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) of MOP1.05bn. Following a strong August performance, Citigroup has revised its full-year GGR forecast upwards, noting strategic post-holiday events by casino operators to sustain gaming volumes.","focusai_entities":"Andy Wu, Macau Tourism Industry Association, Jefferies, Anne Ling, Jingjue Pei, Citigroup, George Choi, Timothy Chau, Galaxy Arena, Jackson Wang","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Post-Golden Week Strategy?","query":"What specific operational and marketing strategies are Macau casino operators implementing to convert the Golden Week visitor influx into sustained gaming volume and NGR growth in Q4 and beyond?"},{"label":"GGR Forecast Drivers?","query":"Beyond the Golden Week and planned events, what underlying macroeconomic factors and policy developments are driving the upward revisions in Macau's full-year GGR forecasts by institutions like Citigroup?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338],"tags":[23911,23908,23906],"class_list":["post-777031742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-gaming-regulation","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777031742","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=777031742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777031742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777031759,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777031742\/revisions\/777031759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777031747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777031742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777031742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777031742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}