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nov25 Satellites e as contas Macau casino operator SJM Holdings Ltd reported a profit attributable to its owners of HKD9 million (US$1.2 million) in the three months to September 30, down 91.1 percent on the HKD101 million in the prior-year period. Group adjusted earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) stood at HKD881 million for the third quarter this year, down 15.0 percent from a year earlier, the firm said in unaudited highlights filed with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Group adjusted EBITDA margin was down 1.3 percentage points year-on-year, at 12.5 percent. Daisy Ho Chiu Fung, chairman and executive director of SJM Holdings, was quoted as saying in a press release issued after the results: “We encountered significant headwinds in the third quarter, driven by the phased cessation of satellite casino operations and intensifying market competition.” The press release said the group’s third-quarter gross gaming revenue (GGR) market sha...

turismo Macau + HK

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out25 Who are Macao’s three-peaters, and what do they mean for future tourism initiatives? Over a third of visitors from Hong Kong have come to Macao at least 3 times in the past 12 months, with those returning over 6 times outnumbering their mainland counterparts Innovative campaign programmes should encourage repeat visitors to explore lesser-known attractions to better distribute foot traffic more evenly, experts say https://macaonews.org/news/business/macao-three-peaters-future-tourism-initiatives-macau/ jun24 One of the Hong Kong government’s top tourism advisers – the leisure and entertainment mogul Allan Zeman – says the city is lagging behind Macao when it comes to attractions.  His comments will come as a stark warning to a Hong Kong tourism industry struggling to find its post-pandemic direction, with long-haul markets remaining sluggish and the domestic market shifting from affluent mainland Chinese travellers to penny-pinching day-trippers. In remarks  published ...

RFID or smart chips (technology) smart gaming tables (AI) social casinos

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out25 Gaming technology supplier Light & Wonder Inc and electronic casino table game maker Spintec d.o.o are two companies with plans to enter Macau’s live dealer electronic table game (ETG) market. The two gaming manufacturers separately told GGRAsia they plan to deploy products that have already been approved by Macau’s casino regulator, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, a body also known as DICJ. In a written reply, Light & Wonder confirmed that it intends to install the firm’s Obsidian product, in either a hybrid or stadium configuration. The supplier displayed the   Obsidian ETG terminal   at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia 2025 casino industry trade show, held in Macau in May. https://www.ggrasia.com/light-wonder-spintec-ready-to-enter-live-dealer-etg-segment-in-macau?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=light-wonder-spintec-ready-to-enter-live-dealer-etg-segment-in-macau may25 A DICJ pretende elevar a gestão “inteligente” do sector d...