{"id":15846,"date":"2021-03-15T16:07:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T16:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=15846"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:07:16","slug":"skycity-auckland-to-reopen-without-covid-19-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-auckland-to-reopen-without-covid-19-restrictions","title":{"rendered":"SkyCity Auckland to reopen without Covid-19 restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SkyCity\u2019s Auckland casino can now operate without Covid-19 restrictions after the city moved&nbsp;from Alert Level 2 to Alert Level 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Zealand.- <strong>SkyCity Entertainment Group <\/strong>has announced that its Auckland property can now <strong>operate without Covid-19 restrictions<\/strong> on mass gatherings and physical distancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The casino<strong> was closed during the first days of March <\/strong>after a new case of Covid-19 was identified in Auckland. <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-auckland-to-reopen-from-march-7\" target=\"_blank\">It then reopened its doors on March 7<\/a><\/em> following the New Zealand Government\u2019s announcement that <strong>the Covid-19 alert level was lowered to level 2 in Auckland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, as Auckland has moved <strong>from Alert Level 2 to Alert Level 1<\/strong> of the COVID-19 Alert System, the SkyCity Auckland could operate without restrictions on mass gatherings and physical distancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alert Level 1 assumes that Covid-19 is contained and<strong> recommends the wearing of masks and social distancing, rather than mandating them<\/strong>. The change means the lifting of restrictions on gatherings of more than 100 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to Covid-19 countermeasures and restrictions, <strong>SkyCity Entertainment Group<\/strong> reported in February that <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-half-year-revenues-fall-76\" target=\"_blank\">revenue for the six months to December 31 was down 76 per cent year-on-year to NZ$78.4m (US$56.4m)<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SkyCity\u2019s Auckland casino can now operate without Covid-19 restrictions after the city moved&nbsp;from Alert Level 2 to Alert Level 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"SkyCity Entertainment Group's Auckland casino can now operate without COVID-19 restrictions on mass gatherings and physical distancing, as the city moved to Alert Level 1. This operational normalization follows significant revenue declines, with the property previously reporting a 76% year-on-year revenue drop for the six months to December 31.","focusai_entities":"SkyCity Entertainment Group, SkyCity Auckland","focusai_location":"New Zealand, Auckland","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Revenue Impact","query":"What is the projected uplift in GGR and NGR for SkyCity Auckland following the removal of all COVID-19 operational restrictions, and how quickly is this expected to materialize?"},{"label":"Operational Efficiency","query":"How will the lifting of physical distancing and mass gathering restrictions impact SkyCity Auckland's operational expenditure and staffing requirements?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,23876],"tags":[23907,1137],"class_list":["post-15846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-social-news","tag-land-based-casino","tag-skycity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15846","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=15846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15877,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15846\/revisions\/15877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}