{"id":20781,"date":"2021-07-28T16:28:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T16:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=20781"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:10:54","slug":"skycity-adelaide-reopens-after-snap-seven-day-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-adelaide-reopens-after-snap-seven-day-lockdown","title":{"rendered":"SkyCity Adelaide reopens after snap seven-day lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SkyCity has reopened its Adelaide venue as the government of South Australia reports no new cases of Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.-\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-adelaide-in-temporary-closure-due-to-covid-19\">SkyCity Entertainment Group Limited<\/a>\u00a0has announced that its<strong>\u00a0Adelaide casino has been allowed to reopen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said <strong>physical distancing\u00a0<\/strong>and hygiene requirements will remain in place in line with the Level 3 Covid-19 restrictions.\u00a0Authorities have reported no new Covid-19 cases in South Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-expects-strong-performance-for-fy21\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SkyCity<\/a>&nbsp;will release its FY2021 result on August 25. It expects to report&nbsp;<strong>normalised net operating profit after tax (NPAT) of between AU$84m and AU$88m<\/strong>&nbsp;and normalised EBITDA of between AU$247m and AU$253m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the company continues to struggle with&nbsp;<strong>the lack of foreign tourists<\/strong>&nbsp;due to Covid-19 countermeasures, SkyCity has benefitted from domestic tourism, particularly on the weekend and holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SkyCity\u00a0is one of the casino operators being investigated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australian-casinos-investigated-over-aml-compliance\">AUSTRAC<\/a> due to potential non-compliance with AML rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SkyCity has reopened its Adelaide venue as the government of South Australia reports no new cases of Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18781,"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 Adelaide has reopened its casino following no new COVID-19 cases in South Australia, though Level 3 restrictions remain in effect. The company anticipates FY2021 normalised NPAT of AU$84m-AU$88m and normalised EBITDA of AU$247m-AU$253m, benefiting from domestic tourism despite a lack of foreign visitors. Concurrently, SkyCity remains under AUSTRAC investigation for potential AML non-compliance.","focusai_entities":"SkyCity Entertainment Group Limited, SkyCity, AUSTRAC","focusai_location":"Adelaide, South Australia, Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.95), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AML investigation impact?","query":"What is the projected financial and reputational impact of the ongoing AUSTRAC AML investigation on SkyCity's future operational licensing and investor confidence?"},{"label":"FY2021 guidance drivers?","query":"How do the reported FY2021 normalised NPAT and EBITDA guidance reflect the balance between domestic tourism uplift and the continued absence of international high-roller segments?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,28],"tags":[1137],"class_list":["post-20781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news","tag-skycity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20781","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=20781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20799,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20781\/revisions\/20799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}