{"id":14513,"date":"2021-02-10T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=14513"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:55:35","slug":"the-star-sydney-to-increase-capacity-to-10000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/the-star-sydney-to-increase-capacity-to-10000","title":{"rendered":"The Star Sydney to increase capacity to 10,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Australian casino is to increase its capacity as New South Wales relaxes Covid-19 countermeasures from February 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.-\u00a0The\u00a0<strong>Star Entertainment Group<\/strong>\u00a0is preparing to increase its capacity to <strong>10,000 customers<\/strong> in accordance with a relaxation of Covid-19 countermeasures in New South Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, the company was able to <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/the-star-sydney-casino-to-increase-capacity\" target=\"_blank\">increase the capacity at its flagship Sydney venue to 5,000<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong> The new measures will allow up to one person per two square metres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This increased flexibility comes as <strong>the latest government figures show no new locally transmitted cases of Covid-19<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Customers will also<strong> no longer be required to wear masks in gaming rooms<\/strong> at the casino, which will be able to return to a situation similar to the measures under which it operated between December 7 and 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian casino is to increase its capacity as New South Wales relaxes Covid-19 countermeasures from February 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Star Entertainment Group is set to significantly increase operational capacity at its Sydney casino to 10,000 patrons, following the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions by the New South Wales government from February 12. This move, allowing one person per two square metres and removing mask mandates in gaming rooms, reflects improved public health metrics and aims to restore operational normalcy.","focusai_entities":"The Star Entertainment Group","focusai_location":"Australia, New South Wales, Sydney","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), product_ux (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis?","query":"What is the projected incremental Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) impact for The Star Entertainment Group's Sydney venue following this capacity increase?"},{"label":"Operational Efficiency Metrics?","query":"How will the revised operational parameters, including the removal of mask mandates, influence customer dwell time and average spend per patron at the casino?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,28],"tags":[23907,23871],"class_list":["post-14513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news","tag-land-based-casino","tag-the-star-entertainment-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513","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=14513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14543,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513\/revisions\/14543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}