Inside Asian Gaming

IAG MAY 2019年5月 亞博匯 42 COVER STORY IAG: Suncity has also become partners with Paradise Co in Busan, Korea. Can you explain more about that investment? AL: Yes, we like the destination because in the neighbourhood there is going to be a huge 6-star hotel, a shopping mall and commercial buildings so I think it will attract a lot of tourists. After Korea’s troubles with China that affected tourist numbers a few years ago it has rebounded, but not that well in regards to the number of visitors, so that’s why it was a good time to negotiate a price with Paradise. It’s an investment for our listed company. We want to tell the market a few things – first, that Suncity has the ability to get a license to design, to build, to operate and get good numbers. Second, that we can invest and buy out existing buildings. But after investing, marketing and operating, give us two quarters and you will see some big growth. If these two things happen we think our stock price will go up a lot, so that is our direction. One other thing is generating our database. Right now our only window of opportunity is to generate our VIP database but if we run the whole IR we can generate a slots database, a different regional database, so if you’re Korean we bring you to Vietnam for golfing, if you’re Vietnamese and have never seen snow, we bring you to Russia. Having access to different regions gives us more and more choices, so that is our plan . 亞博匯：太陽城同時還和韓國釜山的百樂達斯集團達成了合作。可以 請您介紹下這筆投資的背景嗎？ 盧啟邦： 因為那附近將會興建一間豪華的六星級酒店、一個大型購物中 心以及一些商務寫字樓，我認為那裡將會吸引很多遊客。 幾年前受韓中關係影響的遊客數量，現在已經反彈過來，但數字 依然未達預期。所以當時是和百樂達斯談價格的好時機。這對我們上 市公司而言是一項投資。 我們希望藉此給市場傳遞一些信息——首先，太陽城有能力去獲 得許可設計、建造及運營一個綜合娛樂度假村，並且可以有好的業績。 其次，我們也可以去投資和收購現有的項目。在投資、營銷和運營之 後，只要給我們兩個季度的時間你就能看到明顯的增長。如果這兩件 事都成功了，那麼我們的股價會上升很多，所以這是我們的方向。 再來就是我們也可以建成自己的客戶群。現在我們唯一能做的是 構建貴賓客戶群，但是如果我們運營了整個度假村，我們就可以生成 一個角子機分析客戶群、不同區域的數據，那麼如果你是韓國人，我們 可以帶你去越南打高爾夫，或者如果你是從未見過下雪的越南人，我 們可以帶你去俄羅斯。 我們在不同地區發展業務的同時，也迎來越來越多的機會，而這 正正是我們的計劃。 Suncity Group recently upped its stake in Summit Ascent, operator of Tigre de Cristal, to 29.77%. 太陽城集團最近將其持有的凱升控股的股份提增至29.77%，後者先運營俄羅斯水晶虎宮娛樂場。