Inside Asian Gaming
IAG JAN 2021年1月 亞博匯 89 十年之前 the idea was to provide a genuine alternative to the world-class IR offerings then-recently launched in Macau and Singapore. “I think part of the issue with [the Australian] market is it had gotten complacent, more from a product standpoint in the VIP business or the type of business you see in Asia,” Mullen told IAG at the time. “We haven’t been competitive with the product that we offer to those customers, so even though we’re in a great location here in a city such as Sydney, we just haven’t had the offerings to complement that visit. So now we are going to make sure we offer the international customer the best suite experience in the city, and also give them a VIP experience with the gaming area. We needed to improve all of that so we can compete with places like Macau and Singapore.” 時 值2011年,澳洲博彩業巨擘Tabcorp公司的旗 下賭場部門的首席執行官Larry Mullin概述了 該公司為其澳洲四家賭場指定的宏偉計劃。 在《亞博匯》於 2 0 1 1 年 1 月的一次專訪 中,Mullin解釋了Tabcorp是如何斥資10億 澳元(7.57億美元)對其悉尼期間物業Star City進行升級改造的, 此外該公司投資了6.25億澳元改建了旗下位於昆士蘭的三處物 業——位於布里斯班的Treasury Casino & Hotel、位於黃金海岸的 Jupiters Hotel及Jupiters Townsville。 此舉除了將75%的投資用於餐廳、酒店、夜店及其他娛樂項 目以提升公司的非博彩吸引力之外,主要還是為了對標當時正在 澳門及新加坡推出的世界一流的綜合度假村的服務水準。 Mullen當時向《亞博匯》表示:「澳洲市場的一個問題是過於 自滿,更多的從貴賓業務的角度或那種亞洲常見的業務類型的角 度來推出產品。」 「我們向這些客戶提供的產品沒有競爭力,所以即使我們在
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