According to a report from Asia Gaming Brief citing official figures from the Financial Services Bureau, the January amount from the former Portuguese enclave’s over 30 casinos represented some 80.6 % of the government’s total monthly revenues and followed a slight annual improvement in terms of the number of foreign tourists to nearly 31 million led by a 12.8 % spike in vacationers from mainland China to 7.6 million.
After suffering through 26 months of year-on-year declines, Macau’s casinos saw their aggregated gross gaming revenues for August improve by 1.1 % while a 7.4 % swell was reported for September before October’s figure went up by 8.8 %. These were all surpassed in November by a 14.4 % boost to approximately US$ 2.4 billion before December’s figure grew by 8 % to hit almost US$ 2.5 billion.
"Overnight visitors spending one night in Macau spend over 1.7 times more on gaming and non-gaming excluding transport than day-trippers while those staying two nights spend 3.3 times more,” read a statement from brokerage firm Sanford C Bernstein Company.
