{"id":2994,"date":"2020-01-31T13:41:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T13:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:19:33","slug":"expo-yokohama-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/expo-yokohama-resort","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural IR Expo in Japan attracts 10,000 visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some of the world’s largest casino operators showcased their integrated resorts plans at the two-day expo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The first major IR Expo in Yokohama<\/a><\/em><\/strong> attracted more than 10,000 visitors across the two-day event, with more than 40 exhibitors taking part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The expo was hosted by the Integrated Resort (IR) Yokohama Promotion Council and the Japan IR Expo<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in Yokohama Committee, and was facilitated by Innovent, Inc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Japan’s IR race hotting up, the world\u2019s leading IR operators including the Galaxy Entertainment Group, Genting Singapore, Las Vegas Sands, Melco Resorts & Entertainment<\/em><\/strong> and Wynn Resorts<\/em><\/strong> exhibited their plans should they be granted one of the licences up for grabs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the expo, Japanese gaming giant Sega Sammy Holdings<\/a><\/em><\/strong> announced a strategic business alliance with UK firm Foster + Partners<\/em><\/strong> to jointly pursue an integrated resort license in Yokohama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn order to make Japan\u2019s IR facilities stand out in an international context where competition in the IR business is on the rise, there is a need to create IR facilities that have an overwhelming presence on the world stage,\u201d Sega Sammy said in a statement.
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Some of the world’s largest casino operators showcased their integrated resorts plans at the two-day expo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3025,"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 IR Expo in Yokohama showcased plans from major global integrated resort operators, including Galaxy Entertainment Group, Genting Singapore, Las Vegas Sands, Melco Resorts & Entertainment, and Wynn Resorts, as Japan's IR licensing process intensifies. Concurrently, Sega Sammy Holdings announced a strategic alliance with Foster + Partners to jointly pursue an IR license in Yokohama, underscoring the high-stakes competition for market entry.","focusai_entities":"Galaxy Entertainment Group, Genting Singapore, Las Vegas Sands, Melco Resorts & Entertainment, Wynn Resorts, Sega Sammy Holdings, Foster + Partners, Integrated Resort (IR) Yokohama Promotion Council, Japan IR Expo in Yokohama Committee, Innovent, Inc.","focusai_location":"Yokohama, Japan, UK","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.75), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Yokohama IR Competition","query":"What specific competitive advantages are operators like Sega Sammy Holdings and their partners leveraging to differentiate their Yokohama IR proposals amidst such high-profile global competition?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Impact","query":"How might the specific regulatory and governance frameworks proposed by the Japanese government influence the operational models and investment strategies of the successful IR license applicants?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338],"tags":[473,470,909],"class_list":["post-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-yokohama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777018382,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions\/777018382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}