Inside Asian Gaming

IAG DEC 2021年12月 亞博匯 116 TRADE EVENTS “There is no doubt the electronic space continues to grow in our market and that includes both ETG and the slot offering,” said Cheers. “While some of the floors may be redesigned to help cater for some sort of spacing and social distancing in the format of bank layouts and so on, I have no doubt the ETG product is going to grow, quality slot products will grow and I think our customers have become more and more attuned to the electronic style of game offering.” Either way, Robson doesn’t expect the “new norm” to stick around forever. “I think an interesting parallel is the aviation industry around 9/11 and what happened in the period post-9/11 until today,” he said. “Of course new innovations came in but invariably things largely came back to where they had been, so I think there will be a lot of temporary changes but this will also create opportunities for new experiences.” Notably, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw Macau’s GGR fall 79% year-on-year to MOP60.44 billion (US$7.57 billion) in 2020, hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm of operators to invest in Macau, with Sands China having this year opened its US$2 billion The Londoner Macao project and Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) nearing completion of Galaxy Macau Phase 3. GEG’s Senior Vice President of Public Relations, Buddy Lam, told MGS Summit he expected cities within the Greater Bay Area to resume intense competition for tourism dollars in the not-too- distant future. “We have confidence in Macau’s long-term future development,” Lam said. “Once the COVID-19 The development of the Greater Bay Area means there will be competition between cities in the region. We need to … use this downtime to improve our position against our competitors.” – Buddy Lam 「大灣區的發展意味著區域內城市 之間將出現競爭。我們需要……準 備好迎接這場競爭，並利用這段宕 機時間來自我提升。」 – 林志成 「雖然某些娛樂場區域可能需要重新設計，以滿足機器佈局 符合某種間距及社交距離，但我毫不懷疑電子博彩桌的產品會增 長，優質的角子機產品也會增加。我們的客戶越來越適應電子娛 樂風格。」 然而無論哪種方式，Robson都不希望「新常態」永遠存 在。 他表示：「一個有趣的類比是911事件前後的航空業，以及 911事件之後至今的一切。」 「當然會有新的創新出現，但事情總會回到原來的狀態。 所以我認為會有很多暫時的變化，但同樣也為新的經驗創造了機 會。」 值得注意的是，受疫情影響，2020年澳門的博彩總收入按