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IAG NOV 2022年11月 亞博匯 104 26-50 PRESIDENT AND COO Bloomberry Resorts PRESIDENT AND COO Solaire Resort and Casino 總裁兼營運總監 Bloomberry Resorts 總裁兼營運總監 晨麗度假城馬尼拉 CLAIMS TO FAME 名成事跡 POWER SCORE 權能指數: 613 POSITION LAST YEAR 去年排名: 47 Trusted confidante of Bloomberry owner Enrique Razon Jr Serves as President, COO and Director of Solaire parent company Bloomberry Bloomberry掌舵人Enrique Razon Jr的心腹 在母公司Bloomberry出任總裁、營運總監兼董事 THOMAS ARASI 38 HAVING ENDURED some high-profile misadventures in establishing the management team he wanted for his newly minted Manila resort Solaire, owner Enrique Razon Jr ultimately struck gold in former Marina Bay Sands CEO Thomas Arasi. Since joining the company in late 2013, Arasi has helped Solaire become the market leader among all Philippines licensed casinos with a hotel offering as good as anything else in Asia and a gaming floor to which all others aspire. The COVID-19 pandemic slowed Solaire’s momentum, but with the Philippines now reopened to the world and most restrictions dropped, Q2 saw the company soar back to profit, with gaming revenues up 131% on the same period last year to US$235 million. But Solaire’s parent firm Bloomberry Resorts Corp isn’t resting on its laurels. The company will launch its second integrated resort, Solaire North, in Quezon City next year; recently announced plans for a third in Cavite; and looks likely to buy a significant stake in PH Resorts Group, which is developing casino resorts in Cebu and Clark. Arasi appears to have a few more tricks up his sleeve too, having recently overseen the launch of a new VIP area at Solaire – said to be breaking records already – and a number of other additions to the property’s gaming space in the works. Closing in on a decade with Bloomberry, Arasi clearly has the trust of his boss Razon, the Philippines looks set to boom, and the future looks bright. 在為新建 的馬尼拉度假村成立一支他所想的團隊時，雖然經歷了一些引人 注目的不幸事件，但老闆Enrique Razon Jr終於把目光放到前新加坡濱海 灣金沙行政總裁Thomas Arasi身上。 自2013年底加入公司以來，Arasi幫助晨麗成為在菲律賓所有持牌娛 樂場中的市場領導者，其酒店提供的服務在亞洲不亞於其他地方，其博彩 區亦是其他地方所嚮往的。 晨麗的發展因新冠疫情而有所放緩，但隨著菲律賓重新開放旅遊，大 多數限制亦被取消，晨麗的第二季度博彩收入比去年同期增長了131%，高 達2.35億美元，重獲利潤。 然而晨麗的母公司Bloomberry Resorts Corp並未滿足於此。該公司 將於明年在奎松市推出第二家綜合度假村Solaire North，最近還公佈了在 甲美地省建設第三家度假村的計畫，並可能收購正在宿霧及克拉克發展娛 樂度假村的PH Resorts Group相當份額的股份。 Arasi似乎還有一些絕技，他監督的晨麗貴賓廳區最近正式推出（據 說該區已打破紀錄），以及還有一些新增的博彩區域正在進行施工。