{"id":24770,"date":"2021-11-23T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T11:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=24770"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:36:13","slug":"skycity-expects-to-reopen-auckland-venue-on-december-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-expects-to-reopen-auckland-venue-on-december-3","title":{"rendered":"SkyCity expects to reopen Auckland venue on December 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SkyCity has announced it expects to reopen its casino and entertainment facilities in Auckland for fully vaccinated customers from December 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

New Zealand.- Authorities in New Zealand have announced\u00a0the country will move to a new Covid-19 Protection Framework<\/strong>\u00a0from December 2. The Auckland region will move into the ‘Red’ category, under which most businesses, will be able to open to vaccinated people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SkyCity Entertainment expects to reopen its venue in Auckland<\/strong>\u00a0for fully vaccinated customers from December 3. A week ago, the company announced the reopening of its\u00a0casino and entertainment facilities in Hamilton<\/a>\u00a0with additional health and safety measures in place to reflect the Ministry of Health\u2019s latest recommendations and guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SkyCity Queenstown is open since Queenstown is at level 2. The company also has venues outside of New Zealand. Its properties in Adelaide and the SkyCity Online Casino are open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October,\u00a0the casino operator<\/a>\u00a0decided to allow only vaccinated customers to enter its casinos. It will require Covid-19 vaccination certificates for entry to all SkyCity venues in New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Michael Ahearne, SkyCity\u2019s CEO<\/strong>, the casino operator has in place the highest available levels of protection against Covid-19 and is meeting its legal obligations under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 but that research had confirmed: \u201cCovid-19 vaccines will provide the best protection for our staff and customers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added: \u201cSkyCity expects the CVC requirement will cover all employees (around 2,900), customers<\/strong>, contractors and visitors at our New Zealand sites to protect them from the harmful effects of Covid-19.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SkyCity has announced it expects to reopen its casino and entertainment facilities in Auckland for fully vaccinated customers from December 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":24798,"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 is set to reopen its Auckland casino and entertainment facilities to fully vaccinated customers from December 3, aligning with New Zealand's new Covid-19 Protection Framework. This follows similar reopenings in Hamilton and Queenstown, with the operator mandating Covid-19 vaccination certificates for all patrons, employees, and contractors across its New Zealand venues to ensure health and safety compliance.","focusai_entities":"SkyCity, SkyCity Entertainment, Michael Ahearne, Ministry of Health","focusai_location":"New Zealand, Auckland, Hamilton, Queenstown, Adelaide","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact?","query":"What is the projected GGR recovery trajectory for SkyCity's New Zealand properties, specifically Auckland, given the phased reopening and vaccination mandate?"},{"label":"Regulatory Compliance Costs?","query":"What are the estimated incremental operational costs associated with implementing and enforcing the Covid-19 vaccination certificate requirement across all SkyCity New Zealand venues?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,28,158],"tags":[1137],"class_list":["post-24770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news","category-slider-home","tag-skycity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24770","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=24770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24780,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24770\/revisions\/24780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}