{"id":777049241,"date":"2026-11-02T06:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777049241"},"modified":"2026-11-02T08:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:01:48","slug":"macau-ggr-october-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-october-revenue","title":{"rendered":"Macau GGR falls 10% year-on-year in October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Golden Week and major events boosted monthly revenue, but the market remains under pressure as Macau seeks to meet its 2026 GGR target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Key takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Macau&#8217;s October 2026 GGR reached MOP21.68bn (US$2.69bn), down 10% year-on-year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Revenue increased 20% compared with September&#8217;s US$2.23bn.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October marked the fifth consecutive month of year-on-year GGR decline.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Macau&#8217;s cumulative GGR for the first ten months of 2026 totalled MOP208.79bn (US$25.89bn), up 1.6% year-on-year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has reported that Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR) was MOP21.68bn (US$2.69bn) in October. That\u2019s a decrease of 10 per cent in year-on-year terms but 20 per cent ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-september-revenue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September\u2019s US$2.23bn<\/a>. October figures benefited from the <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-welcomes-1-14m-visitors-during-october-golden-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golden Week holiday<\/a> as well as several events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October was the fifth consecutive month of year-on-year GGR decline and saw the second-highest year-on-year fall so far this year. Cumulatively, Macau\u2019s GGR for the first ten months of 2026 was MOP208.79bn (US$25.89bn), up 1.6 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-forecast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chief executive Sam Hou Fai<\/a> had said that the government would review October performance before deciding whether to maintain its 2026 GGR forecast of MOP236bn (US$29.2bn). <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-casino-ggr-revenue-target\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CreditSights<\/a> had suggested that Macau could remain on course to meet the target with soft data possibly still being cyclical rather than structural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"see-also-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/Personal-Finance-1024x574-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-article__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-casino-ggr-revenue-target\">Macau remains on track to meet 2026 gaming revenue target, CreditSights says<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden Week and major events boosted monthly revenue, but the market remains under pressure as Macau seeks to meet its 2026 GGR target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777049243,"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 October 2026 Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) reached MOP21.68bn, marking a 10% year-on-year decline despite a 20% month-on-month increase driven by Golden Week. This represents the fifth consecutive month of YoY GGR contraction, prompting the Chief Executive to review the feasibility of the MOP236bn GGR target for 2026 amidst market pressure.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), Sam Hou Fai, CreditSights","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (0.98), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Target Feasibility?","query":"Given the fifth consecutive month of YoY GGR decline, what specific structural or cyclical factors are CreditSights and the DICJ analyzing to determine the feasibility of Macau's MOP236bn GGR target for 2026?"},{"label":"Operator Strategy Shift?","query":"How are Macau's integrated resort operators adjusting their capital expenditure, marketing strategies, and non-gaming offerings in response to the persistent year-on-year GGR contraction, particularly outside of peak holiday periods?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338],"tags":[29,257],"class_list":["post-777049241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777049241","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=777049241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777049241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777049255,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777049241\/revisions\/777049255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777049243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777049241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777049241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777049241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}