The government will keep the city’s cap on licensed junket operators working with Macao’s casinos at 50 in 2025, the same as this year, Asia Gaming Brief reports.
The quota is still more than twice the number of junket operators – also known as gaming promoters – currently registered in the SAR, who numbered 22 as of 11 June. It’s a dramatic decrease from 2014, when there were 235 licensed junkets operators in the city, contributing around 60 percent of Macao’s casino revenues.
Junkets operators offer lavish travel incentives to high-roller customers to get them to play at certain casinos. These gambling trips are called “junkets.”
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Macao’s authorities have been cracking down on the junket sector in recent years, following the arrest of major industry figures such as Suncity’s Alvin Chau and Tak Chun Group’s Levo Chan. Its recent gaming policies are in line with efforts to pivot Macao’s global branding away from just gambling.
The number of junket operators that each of the city’s six gaming concessionaires can work with next year has not yet been announced (these quotas are set at the discretion of the Secretary for Economy and Finance).
In 2024, Sands China and SJM holdings were allowed to collaborate with up to 12 junket operators each. MGM China and Melco Resorts & Entertainment could work with up to eight each, while Galaxy Entertainment and Wynn Macau were capped at five junket partners each.
