According to Nelson Kot, the president of the Macau Comprehensive Social Research Association, Macau's gaming operators have been discussing actively with licensed junkets, aiming to boost the VIP revenue rebound.

Hong Kong may continue to serve as one of Macau’s leading source markets, despite undergoing continuous reshaping of its consumer market, with minimal impacts on GGR.

Although Macau's economic diversification plan for the next five years holds few surprises for the public, some of the announced measures have received positive feedback.

Experts are struggling to find quantifiable advantages to the new foreigner-only gaming zones in Macau casinos, noting that none of Macau’s six gaming concessionaires have so far applied for the tax break, reducing the 40 percent charge on their gross gaming revenue (GGR), which could be applicable to gambling by foreigners under the new concession system.

The president of the Macau Comprehensive Social Research Association says that the successor of Dr. Ambrose So might need to complement SJM's non-gaming weaknesses. In this way, the board of the SJM could even look to hire foreign executives to take So's place.