57 percent of gaming visitors wage less than MOP2,000

The findings of the Macao Visitor Profile Survey for the second quarter of 2015 suggest that 57 percent of tourists that admit to gambling spend less than MOP2,000 on the activity per trip, according to GGR Asia.
The survey interviewed a total of 1,025 visitors and found that only a quarter of them said they had gambled during their visit to the SAR.
Of those that had gambled, 38 percent said that they had spent less than MOP 1,000
and 21 percent said they wagered less than MOP 500.
Only 25 percent of those that gambled indicated that they had spent more than MOP5,000 – a proportion that pales in comparison to a similar 2014 study conducted in Las Vegas which found that the average gambler spent the equivalent of MOP4,231.
The results also indicated that 83 percent of overnight visitors had stayed or intended to stay in Macau for two or three days. Visitors mainly traveled in small groups consisting of one to three persons (74 percent) while some came in crowds of four to six (22 percent).
The majority of those interviewed in the survey came from mainland China (68 percent), Hong Kong (17 percent) and Taiwan (8 percent). Around 70 percent of those interviewed had visited Macau before.
Around three-fifths of the respondents were female, while almost 70 percent were under 35 years old and well educated, with 62 percent of respondents said that they had attained a qualification from a tertiary education institution.
The survey was conducted by the Tourism Research Centre at the Institute for Tourism Studies between April and June 2015.