Inside Asian Gaming

IAG NOV 2020年11月 亞博匯 134 COLUMNISTS environment in a country known for its commitment to health and wellness as well as its relative success in combatting the pandemic. Proposed social safeguards can also be assessed from an outcomes perspective. A bidder should be able to explain the systems and controls it will put in place – such as, but not necessarily restricted to, self-exclusion, employee training, cutting edge technological tools and support for counselling – to minimize harm from gambling. Bidders should be expected to show from their own experience the outcomes of these approaches in jurisdictions where they already operate. This will give confidence as to what outcomes might subsequently be reasonable to expect in Japan. Putting in place an outcomes-based framework allows a jurisdiction to build binding commitments into agreements with the IR licensee for maintenance of physical and operational standards. Without such agreements, the non-gaming components of a facility could fall into disrepair quite quickly with an operator concentrating its capital expenditure on the higher earning gaming offer. The draft Basic Policy is clear that a completed initial build is not in itself enough with the licensee required to re-invest some of its operating profits after opening into continuous improvements of its IR facilities. This also hints at an expectation that a bidder is more likely to be successful if it is sufficiently financially sound that repatriation of profits to service debt will not detract from the ongoing standard of the Japan IR. DEFINING SUCCESS IR success may have many definitions. Outcomes which benefit the community as a whole are, perhaps, the best definition. As can be seen in Macau, the local community has been amajor beneficiary of the opening IR success may have many definitions. Outcomes which benefit the community as a whole are, perhaps, the best definition. IR的成功可以有很多定義。也許，能 造福整個社會便是最好的定義。