Online lifeline?
As Asia considers expanding online gaming to bolster revenue battered by COVID-19, Europe and the US show how to do it responsibly with stringent compliance. Amid the global coronavirus pandemic that has shuttered casinos and brought travel to a virtual...
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Hoiana: Sand, surf and Suncity
Asian VIP services provider Suncity Group has opened the first facilities at its long-awaited Vietnam integrated resort, Hoiana. Just over four years since first breaking ground in April 2016, Suncity Group has now held the exclusive preview opening of its...
Casinos Austria: Into the East
IAG speaks with Casinos Austria International, one of three leading contenders to develop an integrated resort in the regional Japanese city of Sasebo, Nagasaki, to find out more about its Asian expansion plans. Imagine a couple bound by deeply interwoven...
Employee evolution
Gaming industry employees around the world have started returning to work following COVID-19 shutdowns, but just how motivated they are may well depend on how well they were treated. Imagine, if you will, that you’re an employee of Las Vegas...
Japan’s Tokyo dilemma
The Tokyo gubernatorial election may well have decided the city’s IR fate, yet history suggests Japan’s capital city has long wanted a casino of its own. Tokyo is attracting attention. At the time of writing, the most populous urban conglomeration...
Size matters: How integrated resorts can reduce gambling addiction
While Japan grapples with a population fearful that IRs will spark an increase in gambling addiction, the evidence suggests a very different outcome for those cities around the world to have already welcomed integrated resorts. It was November 2008, around...
On with the show
Suncity Group is looking to expand its film and entertainment arm, Sun Entertainment Culture, into Japan. Suncity Group, one of two global gaming and leisure investors bidding to develop an IR in Wakayama, is already pressing ahead with plans to...
Community care amid corona
As a partnership actively pursuing an IR license in Japan, Macau’s Galaxy Entertainment Group and Europe’s Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer have been among the industry’s leading lights during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Partners in Japan and leaders within...
