{"id":31694,"date":"2022-07-13T02:51:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T05:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=31694"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:56:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:56:01","slug":"macau-two-more-casino-resorts-used-as-quarantine-accommodation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-two-more-casino-resorts-used-as-quarantine-accommodation","title":{"rendered":"Macau: two more casino resorts used as quarantine accommodation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities have decided to use Studio City and Broadway Macau as quarantine accommodation. There are now six casino resorts being used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-\u00a0<strong>Liz Lam Tong Hou<\/strong>, a member of the Macao Government Tourism Office, has updated the list of quarantine hotels in the city. Studio City, run by Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd, and Broadway Macau, run by Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd, have been added to the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Studio City has 680 rooms\u00a0<\/strong>while<strong>\u00a0Broadway Macau has 235 rooms<\/strong>. Both casino resorts will be used for \u2018red\u2019 code quarantines. These are people who are confirmed to have Covid-19 infection or identified as having had a high risk of exposure to infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other resort hotel facilities that are being used as quarantine accommodation include <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/the-parisian-macao-casino-resort-used-as-quarantine-accommodation\" target=\"_blank\">the Parisian Macao casino resort<\/a>, the Sheraton Grand Macao,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/500-people-in-quarantine-at-grand-lisboa-palace\" target=\"_blank\">the Grand Lisboa casino hotel<\/a>\u00a0and the Grand Hyatt Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-shuts-all-casinos-for-a-week-amid-rise-in-covid-19-cases\" target=\"_blank\">Casinos will remain closed until July 18<\/a>\u00a0as well as construction and industrial sites. Non-essential business venues have also been closed. The number of Covid-19 cases in the latest outbreak had risen to 1,583 as of Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outbreak had a major impact on the gaming industry, with daily casino gross gaming revenue falling to MOP20m (US$2.48m) for the first 10 days of July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysts at Sanford Bernstein now predict the average daily GGR in Macau for July as a whole will be&nbsp;<strong>down 85 per cent month-on-month<\/strong>. The figure could be even lower \u201cdepending on the length of Macau lockdown and travel restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have decided to use Studio City and Broadway Macau as quarantine accommodation. There are now six casino resorts being used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau authorities have designated Melco Resorts' Studio City and Galaxy Entertainment's Broadway Macau as additional quarantine facilities, bringing the total to six casino resorts. This decision coincides with the extension of casino closures until July 18th and broader non-essential business shutdowns due to a rising COVID-19 outbreak. The severe operational restrictions have led to a drastic decline in Gross Gaming Revenue, with analysts projecting an 85% month-on-month decrease for July.","focusai_entities":"Studio City, Broadway Macau, Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd, Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd, Macao Government Tourism Office, Parisian Macao, Sheraton Grand Macao, Grand Lisboa, Grand Hyatt Macau, Sanford Bernstein, Liz Lam Tong Hou","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Outlook","query":"What are the projected timelines and key indicators for a material recovery in Macau's GGR, considering the extended lockdown and evolving travel restrictions?"},{"label":"Operator Asset Strategy","query":"How are Macau's integrated resort operators strategically re-evaluating their asset utilization and non-gaming revenue diversification in response to prolonged operational disruptions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-31694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31694","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=31694"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31735,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31694\/revisions\/31735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}