Casinos in Macau have been experiencing a steady decline in revenues for almost two years. One of the reasons is the decline in business generated from gambling junkets which attracted high rollers that contributed a large percentage of the overall revenue.
A recent report by University of Hong Kong sociologist T. Wing Lo and Department of Applied Social Sciences researcher Sharon Ingrid Kwok published in the British Journal of Criminology, titled Triad Organized Crime in Macau Casinos: Extra-Legal Governance and Entrepreneurship opinionated that the Chinese criminal underworld dominates the activity of the gaming junkets.