Inside Asian Gaming

IAG MAY 2022年5月 亞博匯 96 INDUSTRY PROFILE reduce our costs. All of us are on the lookout for how we can make hotels work smarter while not losing the personal touch. OG: In normal times, it has long been said that Macau does not have enough hotel rooms to meet demand. Do you agree with this and if so, what is the solution moving forward? RV: I think Macau has around 40,000 rooms. I did some calculations a few weeks ago and found there’s another 10,000 rooms in the making. So 50,000 rooms is quite a lot for Macau. I can see that in the very near future the bulk of tourists will come in through Hengqin, the back door of Macau into Cotai, and they will sort of leave the peninsula alone a bit. And I think the integration with Hengqin, with the theme parks over there, will also have an effect. I expect Hengqin will end up with around 20,000 rooms, so combining Hengqin and Macau will be able to tackle a lot of the influx. 除此之外，我認為會出現越來越多 的應用技術。酒店經營者正在尋找如何 更有效地經營酒店的方法。管理成本增 加了，但收入卻沒有增加，因此我們必 須找到降低成本和自動化的方法。所有 人都在尋找如何讓酒店更智能地運作， 同時又不失個人風格。 OG：往日裡人們一直說澳門沒有足夠的 酒店房間。您是否同意這一點，如果同 意，你認為解決方案是什麼？ RV： 我想澳門有大約4萬個房間。幾週 前我剛做了一些統計，大約還有1萬多個 房間在建造中，5萬多個房間對澳門而 言還是相當多的。而且可以預見，不久