Lawrence Ho<\/a> said that his company had experienced some softness in the market and he expected growth to slow in 2019, from 14 percent last year to \u201cthe mid-to-high single digits.\u201d<\/p>\nBut February\u2019s figures are expected to be healthy, buoyed by a successful Golden Week, said Grant Govertsen, a Union Gaming Securities Asia analyst, in a recent note to investors.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the pendulum swinging both ways, February this year will benefit from timing as it faces an easy February comparison (+5.7 percent) and there should be very little pre-Chinese New Year slowdown to contend with as most of the traditional pre-Chinese New Year slowdown would have hit January this year,\u201d Govertsen wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegardless, our on-the-ground conversations and observations \u2026 have pointed to what feels like the beginnings of a robust holiday period,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Golden Week kicked off in Macau on Monday, with early figures suggesting visitation to the gambling hub will be up on last\u2019s year\u2019s annual Chinese Lunar New Year holiday. On the first day of the holidays, 84,777 people flocked to Macau to celebrate the Year of the Pig — that\u2019s up 21.7 percent on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":97857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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