Inside Asian Gaming

IAG FEB 2023年2月 亞博匯 42 COVER STORY IAG was among the first to recognize the impending doom in Saipan, home to shuttered casino Imperial Palace • Saipan, with our February 2017 cover story. 《亞博匯》在2017年2月的封面故事《天堂中的麻煩》中率指出了塞班島即將面臨的厄運， 那裡是目 前已經關閉的賭場博華皇宫·塞班的所在地。 Suncity Group CEO Alvin Chau, Bloomberry Resorts Corp CEO and Chairman Enrique Razon Jr – one of the Philippines’ richest men – and most recently Crown Resorts CEO Ciarán Carruthers and turning point for our company, one that propelled us to the status of most-read B2B gaming industry media outlet in all of Asia. Indeed, before the demise of the Alexa website rankings system in May 2022, IAG ’s website asgam.com ranked as the most-read gaming industry media outlet in the world, and we’ve no reason to suspect that has changed! Likewise, the Asian Gaming Power 50 – our list of the most influential figures in the industry – and the Gala Dinner held to unveil it each year have established themselves as key events on the annual calendar, anxiously awaited and followed by the most senior of executives Asia-wide. Most exciting for our industry, however, is what’s to come. According to Steelman, whose team is putting the finishing touches on the long- awaited Phases 3 and 4 of Galaxy Macau, 2023 could be the year we see Macau undergo yet another dramatic transformation – much like the one that brought us the adults’ playground that is the modern- day Las Vegas. “Now the challenge [for Macau] is to create activities and events that can extend the visit and create other reasons [apart from gaming] to visit,” he says. “Vegas did not really take off until 1989 and the opening of the Mirage, which was really where diversity was first created when you could visit Philippines gaming visionary Daesik Han. All of this while continuing to expand our brand: the April 2017 launch of IAG ’s daily industry newsletter, IAG Breakfast Briefing , marked a