Visitors from all foreign countries are prohibited from entering Macau. People arriving from the mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are, too, if they visited a foreign country within the past three weeks.<\/p>\n
Because of China’s ongoing “zero-COVID” pandemic response and strict reactions to outbreaks and clusters, gaming analysts focused on Asia say it has become increasingly difficult to predict monthly gaming numbers. As a result, JP Morgan announced earlier this month that it was suspending its monthly GGR forecasts for 2022.<\/p>\n
\nFrankly, we feel less confident about our numbers than we did a year ago,”<\/strong> the JP Morgan team said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThe difficult task of foreseeing February GGR numbers and New Year holiday business was complicated this week, with Hong Kong reporting its fifth COVID-19 outbreak. Hong Kong additionally confirmed the region’s highest daily tally of unlinked cases since the pandemic’s onset.<\/p>\n
February GGR forecasts from the brokerages continuing to issue such guidance will begin rolling in later this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macau casinos kicked off 2022 slower than they did a year ago. Gross gaming revenue (GGR) last month totaled MOP6.34 billion (US$793 million), which was 20.9 percent less than the casinos won in January of 2021. Data from Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) reveals that casinos additionally experienced a more than 20 percent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":199939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69069,81883],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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