{"id":13731,"date":"2021-01-25T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=13731"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:25:14","slug":"hoiana-casino-resort-in-vietnam-to-open-second-half-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/hoiana-casino-resort-in-vietnam-to-open-second-half-of-2021","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam: Hoiana casino resort opening pushed back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The opening of Suncity Group\u2019s casino complex in Vietnam has been put back due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Vietnam.- the opening of Suncity\u2019s <strong>Hoiana<\/strong> hotel and resort has been pushed back to the <strong>second half<\/strong> <strong>of the year<\/strong>, analysts at UBS Securities Asia have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The analysts said the management of Suncity Group confirmed the schedule during a recent meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opening, which had been scheduled for H1, has been put back due to <strong>Covid-19<\/strong> <strong>countermeasures<\/strong> in Vietnam, where <strong>borders remain closed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suncity offered a brief <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/suncitys-hoiana-opens-for-preview\" target=\"_blank\">preview of the casino resort<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in June 2020. <strong>Phase two of the development has already begun<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UBS said that Suncity management believed its main drivers of growth would be its wide customer network of circa 190,000 members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Hoiana casino project<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Phase one of the Hoiana project has a <strong>capital expenditure budget of US$1bn<\/strong> and includes more than 1,000 hotel rooms, 140 gaming tables (two-thirds VIP, one-third mass-market) and 330 slots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suncity expects to target tourists from Southeast Asia and believes the development will \u201c<strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/suncity-plans-non-gaming-resort-in-japan\" target=\"_blank\">bring significant revenue<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and sustainable development prospects\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening of Suncity Group\u2019s casino complex in Vietnam has been put back due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Suncity Group's Hoiana integrated resort in Vietnam has postponed its opening to the second half of the year, as confirmed by UBS Securities Asia analysts, citing COVID-19 countermeasures and border closures. This delay impacts the operational timeline for the US$1bn Phase 1 development, which includes significant VIP and mass-market gaming capacity. Suncity anticipates leveraging its extensive customer network to drive growth.","focusai_entities":"Suncity Group, UBS Securities Asia","focusai_location":"Vietnam","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Hoiana Financial Impact?","query":"What is the projected impact on Suncity Group's FY2021 and FY2022 GGR and NGR forecasts, considering the Hoiana resort's delayed H2 opening and ongoing regional travel restrictions?"},{"label":"VIP Strategy Adaptation?","query":"Given the continued border closures, what specific adaptations to its VIP customer acquisition and retention strategy is Suncity Group implementing for the Hoiana resort, beyond its existing member network?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16333],"tags":[8232,23632,23907],"class_list":["post-13731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-hoiana","tag-integrated-resorts","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13731"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13742,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions\/13742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}