{"id":14365,"date":"2021-02-08T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=14365"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:02:03","slug":"the-londoner-macao-officially-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/the-londoner-macao-officially-opens","title":{"rendered":"The Londoner Macao officially opens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0London-inspired casino resort\u00a0on the Cotai Strip held its official Phase I opening today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-\u00a0President of Sands China, Wilfred Wong has inaugurated phase I of the operator&#8217;s revamped and renamed Cotai casino resort, <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/londoner-macau-to-open-in-february-2021\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Londoner<\/strong><\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The launch event was held at the resort&#8217;s Crystal Palace, inspired by the concept of the original Victorian structure at London&#8217;s Great Exhibition of 1851.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The casino will have <strong>capacity for up to 450 tables and 2,000 slot machines<\/strong>. It will be able to seat 1,700, while an additional 370,000 square feet of meeting space will cater to the MICE market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the opening ceremony, Wong said: &#8220;we bring to you<strong> a piece of London with the best of British history and culture<\/strong>, and a hospitality experience that expertly fuses the traditional and contemporary, starting with this spectacular Crystal Palace and its classic Victorian design, as well as the all-suite The Londoner Hotel.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inauguration takes place just ahead of <strong>Chinese New Year<\/strong>. Venues are hoping for an increase in revenues over the holiday period despite China&#8217;s advice against travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0London-inspired casino resort\u00a0on the Cotai Strip held its official Phase I opening today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Sands China has officially inaugurated Phase I of its rebranded Cotai casino resort, The Londoner, in Macau, featuring significant gaming capacity and MICE facilities. The launch, strategically timed before Chinese New Year, aims to capitalize on holiday revenues despite prevailing travel advisories from China.","focusai_entities":"Sands China, Wilfred Wong, The Londoner","focusai_location":"Macau, Cotai Strip, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Projected GGR Contribution?","query":"What is the projected GGR contribution of The Londoner's Phase I to Sands China's overall Macau portfolio, considering the current visitation constraints and the timing ahead of Chinese New Year?"},{"label":"MICE Strategy Impact?","query":"How does the MICE capacity of The Londoner position Sands China against competitors in diversifying revenue streams beyond traditional gaming in the post-pandemic recovery, particularly given the current travel advisories?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338],"tags":[23907,22894],"class_list":["post-14365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-land-based-casino","tag-the-londoner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14379,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365\/revisions\/14379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}