Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JUL 2023年7月 亞博匯 42 COVER STORY meant people had to take a ferry after disembarking to get to Macau. Now, that has changed slightly with the Hong Kong- Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, which means we have at our disposal another international airport – an airport that is really the hub for Asia. We should be able to receive more regional conferences and mass activities from other parts of the world through Hong Kong International Airport, and we are already starting to work with the government on how we can make the experience of MICE attendees more pleasant when they arrive at Hong Kong airport. How do we make sure they can get on a bus that takes them over the bridge and to their hotel? On the hotel rooms, I think we will have to continue to discuss with the government on how best to make use of whatever land is available, because the government already said there’s no more land, but there’s a development over in Hengqin. How can we leverage on Hengqin with improved transportation links between the two places? Actually, we (Sands China) have a back office in Hengqin and normally it takes me around 15 to 20minutes to cross the border and arrive at the office. If that is possible, then maybe Hengqin could solve the problem of our hotel room shortage. AWS:Asyousay, landisobviously quite constrained in Cotai which is almost completely built out, but there is an interesting little pocket of land just to the south of us at the moment where you have Le Jardin – or the "tropical garden" as it’s known – and you’veannouncedplans to create