{"id":25178,"date":"2021-12-03T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=25178"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:15:18","slug":"sjm-holdings-opens-new-luxury-hotel-at-grand-lisboa-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sjm-holdings-opens-new-luxury-hotel-at-grand-lisboa-palace","title":{"rendered":"SJM Holdings opens new luxury hotel at Grand Lisboa Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SJM Holdings Ltd has opened its long-awaited Karl Lagerfeld luxury hotel at the Grand Lisboa Palace casino resort with 270 guest rooms and suites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/grand-lisboa-palace-partial-opening-announced-for-july-30\">SJM\u2019s Grand Lisboa Palace<\/a>\u00a0has opened the luxury Karl Lagerfeld hotel with 270 rooms and suites in a 20-story tower at Grand Lisboa Palace. Daisy Ho Chiu Fung, chairman of SJM Holdings, said Grand Lisboa Palace was &#8220;the first integrated resort that introduces the concept of a fashionable hotel to our urban hotel industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When complete the whole HK$39bn (US$5bn) development will have<strong>\u00a0around 2,000 hotel rooms<\/strong>\u00a0split between three venues: The Lisboa Palace Hotel, Palazzo Versace Macau, and the Karl Lagerfeld Hotel luxury boutique hotel. It will have\u00a0<strong>27,000 square metres of gaming floor space\u00a0<\/strong>(290,000 sq ft) for up to\u00a0<strong>700 gaming tables and 1,200 electronic gaming machines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grand Lisboa Palace could reach break-even in Q2 2022, analysts say<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysts at\u00a0<strong>JP Morgan Securities\u00a0<\/strong>have predicted that SJM\u2019s new Cotai resort Grand Lisboa Palace could reach break-even in the second quarter of 2022. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/grand-lisboa-palace-posts-us8-9-in-gaming-revenue-in-q3\">SJM Holdings reported<\/a>\u00a0that the venue saw gross gaming revenue of HKD69m (US$8.9m) in Q3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JP Morgan\u2019s prediction depends on Macau reopening its borders and easing travel restrictions. Mainland China is currently the only country that has a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/covid-19-vaccine-passports-could-speed-up-macau-tourism-recovery\">largely quarantine-free travel bubble<\/a>\u00a0with Macau. Sanford C. Bernstein believes \u201cGrand Lisboa Palace break-even is still far off,\u201d despite the casino operator\u2019s GGR being better than the market average during the third quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of September 30,<strong>&nbsp;SJM Holdings had invested HKD37.8bn (US$4.86bn)<\/strong>&nbsp;in the development of Grand Lisboa Palace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SJM Holdings Ltd has opened its long-awaited Karl Lagerfeld luxury hotel at the Grand Lisboa Palace casino resort with 270 guest rooms and suites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":20947,"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 official opening of SJM Holdings' Karl Lagerfeld luxury hotel at the Grand Lisboa Palace integrated resort in Macau marks a significant milestone in the HK$39bn development. While JP Morgan analysts project a Q2 2022 break-even, contingent on Macau's border reopening, Sanford C. Bernstein maintains a more conservative outlook despite the resort's Q3 GGR performance.","focusai_entities":"SJM Holdings Ltd, Karl Lagerfeld, Daisy Ho Chiu Fung, JP Morgan Securities, Sanford C. 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