This time last year saw Macau record the lowest GGR total since the start of the pandemic.
June's figure is, however, a 37% month-on-month decline from May 2021, where GGR was MOP$10.45bn. The figures were released by Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau.
While June 2020 was the lowest point since the pandemic began, May 2021 was the highest point, with the figures coinciding with a five-day holiday period in mainland China at the beginning of the month.
The sequential decline has been linked to an outbreak of Covid-19 in Guangdong Province at the end of May, with border restrictions becoming more strict between Macau and mainland China, while mandatory quarantine measures were introduced on passengers arriving from parts of Foshan, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
For the first six months of 2021, Macau GGR now stands at MOP$49.02bn, a 45% increase from the prior year period. It is the highest year-on-year change in 2021, overcoming May’s increase of 29%.
April meanwhile is the only other month this year to have witnessed a positive year-on-year change, with January’s 64% decline the lowest rate of change so far.
