Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JUL 2023年7月 亞博匯 32 COVER STORY Shoppes at Londoner Macao 倫敦人購物中心 has 150,000 hotel rooms. We have 40,000-plus. Singapore has 60,000 plus. So obviously if we continue to grow, room inventory becomes a very important consideration. Now, for Sands, we have completed our commitment under the previous concession, and under the new concession we have asked to build more MICE related facilities. For example, we’re going to build an 18,000-square meter MICE facility to be connected to the current Venetian MICE facility. And if you have the MICE facilities, you need the hotel rooms. So, we’re looking at the possibility of adding some hotel room inventories over the next 10-year period. AWS: Let's move on to the subject of labor. During COVID we saw a lot of foreign workers leave Macau – both your typical blue card, coal-face workers who have essentially been replaced with local Macau or Chinese talent, and your senior executives. Can Macau fill that void on the line staff and executive fronts or do you think we will see executives and other workers coming back to Macau in the years ahead? Dr Wong: I think you have to look at it from the short-term and the