MGM Cotai is slated to open<\/a> in January 2018, and the $3.3 billion integrated casino resort won’t feature a single VIP baccarat table when it welcomes guests.<\/p>\nMass Appeal<\/b><\/h2>\n
Efforts to bring new visitors to Macau is working, as the city attracted 12 percent more visitors during this month’s Golden Week than it did in 2016.<\/p>\n
The Macau Tourism Office (MTO) recently released some rather bullish predictions. The industry agency’s 15-year Master Plan predicts that non-gaming spend will balloon from $6.6 billion last year, to between $12 billion and $14 billion by 2025.<\/p>\n
The MTO says it’s also anticipating that total visitors will surge from under 31 million in 2016, to upwards of 40 million arrivals by 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Macau VIP segment continues to account for the biggest chunk of gaming revenue on the region’s casino floors. Despite junkets being included in People’s Republic President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption crusade, with smaller touring companies ceasing operations in recent years, the high roller demographic is still placing more bets than the general mass market population. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":61027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,18,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Macau VIPs Still Very Important, Represent 58 Percent of Casino Revenue<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n