Donaco International confirmed on Tuesday a further seven-day extension of the temporary closure of its casino operations at the Aristo International Hotel in Lao Cai, Vietnam.
“The company believes the current Covid-19 situation poses a risk to the health and safety of staff and visitors at Aristo,” the statement explained,
The firm noted that its Star Vegas Casino operations in Poipet, Cambodia also remains closed, a fact that “will have a material impact on Donaco’s business.”
On the other hand, the statement noted that “Donaco is successfully undertaking pragmatic measures to reduce costs.”
Genting’s Dream Cruises and the Marina Bay Cruise Centre Singapore have welcomed their 100,000th passenger onboard World Dream since the start of “safe pilot cruises” in the city on November 6, 2020.
The Philippines government has decided to keep the current quarantine restrictions in Metro Manila in place and expanded the curbs to neighboring Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna and Cavite provinces for 14 days in a bid to suppress a surge in coronavirus infections.
In this April edition of Asia Gaming Briefings we take the pulse of how the North Asia jurisdictions of Japan, Korea and the Russian Far East have fared.
The world is bouncing back, or at least coming to grips with the fact that going forward not much will be the same as before. Commendably, this industry quickly understood the need to adapt to a new normal, and that the days of targeting the low hanging fruit of the VIP sector are gone.
Over the years, many of the answers have been remarkably prescient in their forecasts for the near-term direction of Asia’s gaming industry. However, we can safely say that no one came anywhere close to guessing what 2020 may have had in store.
