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Macau Golden Week visitors down 86 percent
The National Day Golden Week, which spanned eight days this year, saw a year-on-year decline of 86 percent in the number of visitors to Macau.
Goa seeks the return of Russian tourists
The state government of Goa is seeking the return of Russian tourists to both its hotels and casinos as a measure to revive the local economy in the wake of the Covid-19 downturn.
Q1 visitors increase but spending down
Despite increasing its international visitors in Q1, Singapore’s tourism spending fell 4.8 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2019, according to data from...
ASEAN tourism to grow, but challenges remain
The ASEAN region is poised for a significant tourism boom, but more work needs to be done in areas such as infrastructure - and...
Beyond Macau: how Asia’s casino space is shaping up in the 2020s
With multiple new destinations opening up over the coming years, Asia’s casino space will have a very different feel in the 2020s.
Of course, new...
Bloomberry looks north for Manila expansion
Bloomberry Resorts Corporation, owner and operator of the Solaire Resort & Casino, is looking north for future expansion.
Its latest casino venture, which will be...
Genting’s New York IR debuts, eyes Asian tourists
The $1.2 billion Resorts World Catskills opened its doors on February 8, expanding the Genting brand in the U.S., even though the Malaysian company missed out on a license for its own property in New York State. The project, which is the biggest of four new resorts in the upstate area, will be the first IR in the U.S. to carry the Genting name. The company has been pushing hard to penetrate the North American market, though with mixed results.
Chinese tourists to S.Korea expected to halve in 2017
The number of Chinese tourists visiting South Korea is expected to fall by 4 million in 2017, compared to over 8 million recorded in...
Macau wants to be the party capital of Asia
Macau has been working hard to rebrand itself into a “party capital” amidst declining gaming revenue, and pressure for the city to diversify its...
Package tour visitors down in June
The number of visitors on package tours to Macau declined by 20.7 percent year-on-year in June, totalling 571,000 according to data from the Statistics...
Australasian Gaming Expo (AGE) 2021
The Australasian Gaming Expo (AGE) is the place to see new products and services, network, attend thought-provoking seminars, seek business partners and generate sales....
Life After POGOs – AGB Pop-Up Forum
The Philippines and Asia’s online gaming industry is going through uncertain times, with the gaming regulator seeing more and more operators leaving the country for greener pastures.
Acquiring & Retaining iGaming Customers
In this AGB Webinar Series, we covered the newest strategies for iGaming player acquisition and retention.
Asia Gaming Briefings – June 2021 Edition
For this edition of our magazine, we focus on Southeast Asia, with a particular look at the Philippines. The country’s casino industry has been among the hardest hit in Asia, with the integrated resorts in Manila’s Entertainment City having remained mostly closed to the general public since the beginning of the crisis last year.
Asia Gaming Briefings – April 2021 Edition
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.
Asia Gaming Briefings – Feb 2021 Edition
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.