Dream team
IAG sat down with Goro Kadowaki, Executive Advisor, Project Planning & Development of Okura Hotels and Resorts, to discuss its partnership with leading Asian integrated resort operator Galaxy Entertainment Group and how the relationship has evolved over more than a...
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Home base
Suncity Group has opened its new Wakayama office from which it will base its Japan IR bid. Suncity Group Holdings Japan Ltd has opened its new office in Wakayama as it ramps up its bid to develop one of Japan’s...
Slow ride
For Macau and other Asian gaming destinations, full revenue recovery from COVID-19 won’t be quick. Since gaming liberalization in Macau, the mantra has been “If you build it, they will come.” In the brave new world of COVID-19, across Asia...
Junkets unmasked: Part 2
In the second and final part of our deep dive into Macau’s junket industry, IAG Managing Editor Ben Blaschke looks at how VIP rooms work and examines why growing pressures on the VIP sector have encouraged many larger junkets to...
RG Standards
Robust responsible gaming standards are vital to regulators, operators and players adopting a common understanding of safe, established RG practices. In the past several years, legalized gambling has evolved from a traditional land-based experience of slots and tables to now...
Alvin Chau
Inside Asian Gaming CEO Andrew W Scott recently met with Suncity Group CEO and Director Alvin Chau at SKY 21, atop Macau’s AIA building. One of Suncity’s many non-gaming offerings, the well-known bar and restaurant was the perfect venue for...
Junkets unmasked
In the first of a two-part series explaining the A to Z of junkets, Inside Asian Gaming examines the history of Macau’s junket industry, how they came to be partners with the SAR’s six gaming concessionaires and the introduction of...
Pacific puzzle
With its incredible VIP roll reports long gone, Imperial Pacific International has appointed a new CEO as it looks for another extension of its deadline to finish its beachfront casino hotel in Saipan – but its finances may be running...
