{"id":15479,"date":"2021-03-04T16:19:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T16:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=15479"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:21:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:21:34","slug":"new-us2-24bn-casino-proposed-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/new-us2-24bn-casino-proposed-in-vietnam","title":{"rendered":"New US$2.24bn casino proposed in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new casino project has been proposed for Vietnam&#8217;s coastal island of Hon Tre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Vietnam.- <strong>A US$2.24bn casino project has been proposed in\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/vietnam-tourist-arrivals-down-76-year-on-year\" target=\"_blank\">Vietnam\u2019s<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <strong>Khanh Hoa province<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed casino resort would be on <strong>coastal island Hon Tre,<\/strong> near <strong>Khanh Hoa\u2019s provincial capital, Nha Trang.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities are said to be seeking approval from the country&#8217;s politburo and prime minister. Hospitality firm <strong>Vinpearl Co is backing the project <\/strong>according to local news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At present, <strong>just two casinos in Vietnam are allowed to cater for local players<\/strong> under a national government scheme. Players must meet certain requirements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/vietnam-casinos-ask-government-to-let-locals-gamble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">operators in Vietnam<\/a><\/strong><\/em><strong> asked the government to ease the rules on locals entering casinos&nbsp;<\/strong>in order to boost revenue lost as a result of&nbsp;travel restrictions&nbsp;imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new casino project has been proposed for Vietnam&#8217;s coastal island of Hon Tre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"A US$2.24bn integrated resort featuring a casino is proposed for Hon Tre island, Vietnam, backed by Vinpearl Co, pending politburo and prime minister approval. This development emerges amidst calls from existing Vietnamese operators to ease current stringent local player access regulations, which limit domestic GGR, particularly impacted by recent travel restrictions.","focusai_entities":"Vinpearl Co","focusai_location":"Vietnam, Hon Tre, Khanh Hoa, Nha Trang","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Approval Timeline","query":"What specific governance frameworks and politburo approval processes must this US$2.24bn integrated resort project navigate, and what is the projected timeline for securing all necessary B2B\/B2C licensing?"},{"label":"Local Player Policy Impact","query":"How would an easing of local player access regulations in Vietnam impact the projected GGR for both new and existing casino operators, and what are the potential socio-economic implications considered by regulators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,158,16333],"tags":[23907],"class_list":["post-15479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15479","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=15479"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15513,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15479\/revisions\/15513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}