{"id":17535,"date":"2021-05-04T16:59:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T16:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=17535"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:49:30","slug":"ph-resorts-expects-to-launch-cebu-ir-by-end-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ph-resorts-expects-to-launch-cebu-ir-by-end-of-year","title":{"rendered":"PH Resorts expects to launch Cebu IR by end of year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PH Resorts has announced that it plans to open its Cebu IR by the end of the year despite delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Philippines.- Gaming and hospitality company\u00a0PH Resorts Group Holding\u00a0<\/strong>has announced that its Emerald Bay casino resort in Mactan, Cebu, will open by the end of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cebu integrated resort will open in phases<\/strong>\u00a0and is exptected to be fully operational by the second quarter of 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US$465m IR<\/a>\u00a0will feature\u00a0122 gaming tables split between mass, premium mass and junkets<\/strong>. It will also include 600 EGMs and 270 hotel rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PH Resorts hopes to target the growing gaming market in Asia\u00a0<\/strong>“by providing an attractive gaming option for Philippine and regional mass market and VIP players.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second phase, slated for the second quarter of the year 2022, will have\u00a0around 12,164 square meters of aggregate gaming floor area<\/strong>\u00a0and different hotel amenities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, the company announced it had completed towers A and B at\u00a0the resort<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PH Resorts group chairman Dennis Uy stated: “Despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, we are confident that the Philippine gaming industry will be on the road to recovery<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PH Resorts has announced that it plans to open its Cebu IR by the end of the year despite delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"PH Resorts Group Holding plans to open its US$465m Emerald Bay integrated resort in Mactan, Cebu, by the end of 2021, with full operational status expected by Q2 2022. Despite COVID-19 delays, the company aims to target the growing Asian gaming market with 122 gaming tables and 600 EGMs, expressing confidence in the Philippine gaming industry's recovery.","focusai_entities":"PH Resorts Group Holding, PH Resorts, Dennis Uy","focusai_location":"Philippines, Cebu, Mactan, Asia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Emerald Bay GGR Projections?","query":"What is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) contribution of Emerald Bay to the Philippine gaming market in its first full year of operation, considering its phased opening and target segments?"},{"label":"Emerald Bay Compliance Strategy?","query":"How will PH Resorts' B2C licensing and operational compliance strategy for Emerald Bay differentiate it within the competitive Cebu market, particularly concerning responsible gambling and AML frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,158,16333],"tags":[22872,23907,23807],"class_list":["post-17535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-emerald-bay","tag-land-based-casino","tag-ph-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535","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=17535"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17550,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions\/17550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}