Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JUN 2020年6月 亞博匯 96 JAPAN One point he makes is that the return on investment for an operator under the rules currently proposed, including a 3% cap on space that can be utilized for gaming and 30% tax on GGR, are overly restrictive. “If they can’t be allowed to have reserves (profit),” he says, “it won’t be possible for them to maintain quality service for customers.” Case in point, the recent withdrawal from the IR race of one of Japan’s earliest cheerleaders, Las Vegas Sands, whose Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson stated, “The framework around the development of an IR has made our goals there unreachable.” “Sands’ withdrawal was shocking, but if Japan’s government and municipalities [take this as an opportunity to] review the system then Japan’s IRs will move in a good direction,” Rocky says. While the path to Japan’s first IRs remains clouded, Rocky has no such qualms about his casino school with plans already afoot to open a second school in Tokyo. It’s his small vote of confidence that, as long as lessons are learned, Japan’s post-COVID IRs have the potential to be even better than before. Yumeshima Island, the planned home of an integrated resort in Osaka. 夢洲是大阪的綜合度假村選址地。 日本IR需要甚麼 在埋下第一塊磚之前，日本的IR已經受到了嚴格的審 查。Rocky以自己的荷官從業經歷出版了第一本書《Making luck your friend: Rules of players who win JPY 1 billion in one night at casinos》。並在其社交網站上呼籲人們關注日本 僵化的制度，他堅持認為，如果監管不改變，「日本的賭場必定 會失敗。」 他提出的一個觀點是，按照目前提議的規則，運營商的投 資回報過於嚴格，包括博彩空間3％的上限和30％的GGR稅率。 他說：「如果不允許他們保留利潤，他們就不可能為客戶 提供優質的服務。」 比如，曾最早為日本IR開放歡呼的拉斯維加斯金沙集團 於近期退出了IR賽道。該公司主席及首席執行官蕭登·艾德森 表示：「圍繞著IR發展的框框架架令我們無法實現在那裡的目 標。」 Rocky表示：「金沙的撤出令人震驚，但如果日本政府和市 政當局（以此為契機）重新對該系統進行審視，那麼日本的IR 可以向著良好的方向發展。」 儘管通往日本第一間IR的道路仍不明朗，但Rocky對於自 己的賭場學校並無此種顧慮。他已經開始計劃在東京開設第 二間學校。這是他對日本IR投下的信任一票，他相信，只要汲 取教訓，日本IR在疫情之後的發展可能比從前更好 。