The government lifted a ban on Vietnamese gambling<\/strong><\/em><\/a> in casinos in March 2017 following a decree in January 2017. Thus, allowing a three years trial project for gambling by economically-qualified locals at certain venues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Corona Resort and Casino, posted a pre-tax profit of \u20ac4,28 million during its first six months of operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Corona Resort and Casino, Vietnam's inaugural casino permitting local gambling, reported a pre-tax profit of \u20ac4.3 million and gross profit of \u20ac11.9 million on \u20ac24 million in revenues during its initial six months of operation. The casino segment alone generated 53% of the investor's, Phu Quoc Tourism Development and Investment, total revenue and was its sole profitable division. This performance highlights the early commercial viability of the trial program allowing economically-qualified Vietnamese citizens to gamble.","focusai_entities":"Corona Resort and Casino, Corona Casino, Phu Quoc Tourism Development and Investment, Steelman Partners LLP","focusai_location":"Vietnam, Phu Quoc","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Vietnam Market Trajectory","query":"Given Corona Casino's initial GGR and NGR, what are the revised market projections for the Vietnamese domestic gambling vertical, and how might this early success influence the government's decision regarding the extension or permanent adoption of the local gambling trial beyond its initial three-year term?"},{"label":"Operational Compliance Challenges","query":"What specific operational and compliance challenges, particularly concerning AML, KYC, and responsible gambling frameworks, are emerging for operators catering to 'economically-qualified locals' in Vietnam, and how might these influence future B2B\/B2C licensing requirements?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,163,16333],"tags":[96,29,94],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-finance-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-asia","tag-casino","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","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\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21558,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/21558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}