Inside Asian Gaming

IAG NOV 2021年11月亞博匯 74 1-10 CHAIRMAN AND CEO Bloomberry Resorts Corp 主席兼行政總裁 CLAIMS TO FAME 名成事跡 POWER SCORE 權能指數: 1,329 POSITION LAST YEAR 去年排名: 7 Heads only Philippine company that solely controls an Entertainment City integrated resort Building a second casino hotel in Quezon City • • • • 執掌唯一一家在馬尼拉娛樂城營運綜合度假村的菲律賓企業 正在菲律賓奎松市建造第二家綜合度假村 ENRIQUE RAZON JR ENRIQUE RAZON JR was one of the first in the industry to publicly predict just how long the COVID-19 pandemic would last, but almost a year after his company Bloomberry Resorts Corp posted a FY20 net loss of US$170 million even he must be wondering when better days will return. Bloomberry, operator of Manila’s Solaire Resort & Casino as well as the much smaller (and currently closed) Jeju Sun in South Korea, followed up last year’s loss with further losses of US$16.3 million and US$24.1 million respectively in Q1 and Q2, impacted by regular periods of closure and capacity limits. The September quarter promises to offer similar results given Solaire was only open through July, and yet there is no doubt that Razon has been at the front of the Philippines COVID-19 fight since the outset. Last year his companies funded construction of a 600- bed quarantine facility located near Solaire in Parañaque, and this year planned out a vaccination facility with capacity to vaccinate up to 12,000 people per day. Solaire was also one of the first IRs in the country to announce that all of its customer-facing staff were vaccinated. None of that is particularly surprising. Despite having no gaming experience to his name, Razon was the first to 10