Some 35,000 visitors throng Resort World Sentosa’s soft opening of its casino in Singapore on the first day of the Year of the tiger.
SINGAPORE officially entered the Asian gaming market at the weekend when the US$4.7 billion (RM16.05 billion) Resort World Sentosa (http://www.rwsentosa.com ) complex held the soft opening of its casino, the first of its kind in the city state on the first day of the new lunar Year of the Tiger.
And, lured by the promise of around 600 gaming tables, 35,000 visitors streamed through the RWS gates, helping the resort island of Sentosa set a record for the number of visitors in a single day.
The final overall attendance figure last Sunday for the island itself was 75,000, many of whom also snapped up the chance to get a sneak peek of the soon-to-be-opened Universal Studios inside RWS, with preview tickets selling out despite the fact that none of the rides at the theme park have been finished.
RWS has been promoting itself as Singapore’s first "Integrated Resort’’ – one that offers shopping malls and other attractions as well as a casino – and it will be joined later this year by the US$6 billion (RM20.5 billion) Marina Bay Sands complex (http://www.marinabaysands.com ), which will boast 1,000 gaming tables.
Both resorts have been buoyed by the news coming out of Macau this year as the Chinese enclave announced record gaming turnovers for the month of January - but the Singapore resorts still have some way to go to catch that city’s 4,500-odd gaming tables.
Macau pulled in around 14 billion patacas (RM5.95 billion) in January alone - a rise of 63% year-on-year and more than Las Vegas (its traditional rival) picked up over the three months of September, October and November last year – US$1.41 billion (RM4.81 billion) – the last figures made available from the American city.
Industry observers have predicted Macau will see a rise of 20% in gaming revenues in 2010 – taking its overall collection to 144 billion patacas (RM61.17 billion).
Also joining the gaming fray has been the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh’s NagaWorld Hotel & Casino (http://www.nagaworld.com ) – the only casino operator in the city – which is this year reaching out to try to lure more international visitors through its doors.
NagaWorld currently draws around 63% of its regular customers from Vietnam while 60% of its VIP customers come from Malaysia.
With one eye on the money the predominantly mainland Chinese visitors to Macau are helping that city turn over, NagaWorld has recently linked up with the Chinese airline Air Shenzhen to offer special tour packages in an effort to increase tourist traffic to the Cambodian capital. – AFP-Relaxnews
SINGAPORE officially entered the Asian gaming market at the weekend when the US$4.7 billion (RM16.05 billion) Resort World Sentosa (http://www.rwsentosa.com ) complex held the soft opening of its casino, the first of its kind in the city state on the first day of the new lunar Year of the Tiger.
And, lured by the promise of around 600 gaming tables, 35,000 visitors streamed through the RWS gates, helping the resort island of Sentosa set a record for the number of visitors in a single day.
The final overall attendance figure last Sunday for the island itself was 75,000, many of whom also snapped up the chance to get a sneak peek of the soon-to-be-opened Universal Studios inside RWS, with preview tickets selling out despite the fact that none of the rides at the theme park have been finished.
RWS has been promoting itself as Singapore’s first "Integrated Resort’’ – one that offers shopping malls and other attractions as well as a casino – and it will be joined later this year by the US$6 billion (RM20.5 billion) Marina Bay Sands complex (http://www.marinabaysands.com ), which will boast 1,000 gaming tables.
Both resorts have been buoyed by the news coming out of Macau this year as the Chinese enclave announced record gaming turnovers for the month of January - but the Singapore resorts still have some way to go to catch that city’s 4,500-odd gaming tables.
Macau pulled in around 14 billion patacas (RM5.95 billion) in January alone - a rise of 63% year-on-year and more than Las Vegas (its traditional rival) picked up over the three months of September, October and November last year – US$1.41 billion (RM4.81 billion) – the last figures made available from the American city.
Industry observers have predicted Macau will see a rise of 20% in gaming revenues in 2010 – taking its overall collection to 144 billion patacas (RM61.17 billion).
Also joining the gaming fray has been the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh’s NagaWorld Hotel & Casino (http://www.nagaworld.com ) – the only casino operator in the city – which is this year reaching out to try to lure more international visitors through its doors.
NagaWorld currently draws around 63% of its regular customers from Vietnam while 60% of its VIP customers come from Malaysia.
With one eye on the money the predominantly mainland Chinese visitors to Macau are helping that city turn over, NagaWorld has recently linked up with the Chinese airline Air Shenzhen to offer special tour packages in an effort to increase tourist traffic to the Cambodian capital. – AFP-Relaxnews
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