{"id":23681,"date":"2021-10-19T10:26:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T13:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=23681"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:40:07","slug":"grand-emperor-hotel-to-reopen-after-two-week-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/grand-emperor-hotel-to-reopen-after-two-week-lockdown","title":{"rendered":"Grand Emperor Hotel to reopen after two-week lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The casino resort Grand Emperor Hotel has resumed its food and drink operations after a two-week closure. The property\u2019s gaming floors are still being disinfected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.-\u00a0The Grand Emperor Hotel<\/a>\u00a0has announced it will resume operations from October 19 after a two-week closure due to local Covid-19 cases. The venue was inside the so-called red core area\u00a0<\/strong>as one of the latest Covid-19 cases was detected in a person who stayed at the venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employees and guests were tested and quarantined in the property for two weeks. Last Sunday\u00a0testing was carried out<\/strong>\u00a0and no new cases were detected. The company said Macau\u2019s Health Bureau had confirmed that the hotel was not the source of the Covid-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the food and drink operations reopening, the gaming floor will remain closed<\/strong>\u00a0as the area is still being disinfected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities in Macau<\/a>\u00a0have recently announced that\u00a0entertainment venues were allowed to reopen\u00a0<\/strong>as no new Covid-19 cases have been detected. The city has now lifted its \u201cimmediate pandemic prevention\u201d alert. Health authorities have carried out new mass testing to exclude any potential Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zhuhai to ease travel restrictions with Macau<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Authorities in Zhuhai have eased restrictions\u00a0<\/strong>for\u00a0people who have travelled from Macau<\/a>\u00a0and will no longer require a 14-day quarantine.\u00a0Ho Iat Seng<\/a>, Macau\u2019s chief executive, also said\u00a0people who plan to travel outside Macau would no longer need to present a negative Covid-19 test<\/strong>\u00a0issued within 24 hours of departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the first week of October, authorities had announced that the mandatory 14-day quarantine<\/strong> for visitors from Macau<\/a> was going to be kept in place due to new Covid-19 cases in Macau in the past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The casino resort Grand Emperor Hotel has resumed its food and drink operations after a two-week closure. The property\u2019s gaming floors are still being disinfected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":23700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Grand Emperor Hotel in Macau has partially resumed operations, reopening its food and beverage facilities following a two-week COVID-19 related closure and subsequent disinfection. While the property's gaming floors remain temporarily shuttered for continued sanitization, this development coincides with Macau's broader lifting of \"immediate pandemic prevention\" alerts and the easing of travel restrictions by Zhuhai authorities, signaling a gradual return to normalcy for the region's integrated resort sector.","focusai_entities":"Grand Emperor Hotel, Macau\u2019s Health Bureau, Ho Iat Seng","focusai_location":"Macau, Zhuhai","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Impact","query":"What is the projected timeline for the Grand Emperor Hotel's gaming floor to fully resume operations, and how will this phased reopening impact its Q4 GGR contribution and overall market share within Macau's integrated resort landscape?"},{"label":"Regulatory Compliance Evolution","query":"How might the Macau Health Bureau's post-pandemic operational guidelines, as evidenced by the Grand Emperor Hotel's disinfection protocols, influence future B2B\/B2C licensing requirements and ongoing regulatory compliance frameworks for other operators in the region?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23907,23906],"class_list":["post-23681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-land-based-casino","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23681","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=23681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23687,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23681\/revisions\/23687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}