Macau saw monthly gross gaming revenue (GGR) rise 15.9 percent year-on-year in October, to a new post-pandemic record of nearly MOP24.09 billion (US$3.01 billion).
Judged month-on-month, it was up 31.7 percent.
It beat the previous post-pandemic record set in August, of nearly MOP22.16 billion, which had topped January 2020’s MOP22.13 billion, the latter achieved just before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Observers would need to refer back to the end of 2019 for a higher monthly GGR figure than this October’s.
This month’s tally is the best since October 2019’s MOP26.44 billion.
The latest performance was despite a Signal No.8 storm warning linked to Typhoon Matmo – stopping public transport in and out of the city, and thus impacting tourism – for part of a Sunday in the middle of peak-season October Golden Week at the start of the month.
The October result announced on Saturday by Macau’s casino regulator, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, took market wide GGR for the first 10 months of the year to nearly MOP205.43 billion, up 8.0 percent from a year earlier.
