Jeju Sun Hotel and Casino has postponed its reopening to October due to a slower than expected recovery of tourist arrivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
South Korea.-\u00a0Bloomberry\u2019s Jeju Sun\u00a0<\/strong>has pushed back its reopening date\u00a0from July 30<\/a>\u00a0to October due to the slow growth of inbound tourism. <\/strong>The venue has been closed since March 21, 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Three Jeju Island casinos are currently open:\u00a0Jeju Dream Tower Casino<\/a>, Landing Casino at Jeju Shinhwa World, and Paradise Casino Jeju Grand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A venue spokesperson and Jeju government officials separately confirmed to GGRAsia the revised target date for the property to resume operations. The latter said more time was needed for inbound tourism to recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the Jeju Tourism Organization<\/strong>, the number of foreign tourists to Jeju Island was 4,574 in May; 5,922 in June; and 3,552 between July 1 and 17. Due to Covid-19 countermeasures and travel restrictions, in 2020 and 2021, the number of arrivals on Jeju Island was 212,767 and 48,278, respectively, down 87.7 per cent and 77.3 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In June, South Korea\u00a0resumed issuing short-term tourist visas<\/a>\u00a0for individual tourists and tour groups after inbound tourism was halted at the height of the Covid-19 epidemic. However, due to an increase in Covid-19 cases, authorities have reported from July 25, visitors will again\u00a0need to produce a negative Covid-19 test result<\/a>\u00a0issued within 24 hours before boarding a flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeju Sun Hotel and Casino has postponed its reopening to October due to a slower than expected recovery of tourist arrivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Jeju Sun Hotel and Casino has postponed its reopening from July 30 to October due to a slower-than-expected recovery in inbound tourism to South Korea's Jeju Island. This delay, confirmed by a venue spokesperson and Jeju government officials, is further exacerbated by renewed COVID-19 testing requirements for international arrivals, impacting Bloomberry's operational timeline.","focusai_entities":"Jeju Sun Hotel and Casino, Bloomberry, Jeju Dream Tower Casino, Landing Casino at Jeju Shinhwa World, Paradise Casino Jeju Grand, Jeju Tourism Organization, GGRAsia","focusai_location":"South Korea, Jeju Island","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Bloomberry's Revenue Impact?","query":"What is the projected financial impact of this extended closure on Bloomberry's Q3 and Q4 2022 GGR and NGR, considering the ongoing operational costs?"},{"label":"Jeju Market Outlook?","query":"How do the renewed travel restrictions and slow tourism recovery in South Korea affect the competitive landscape and long-term investment outlook for other integrated resorts on Jeju Island?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338,158],"tags":[15417],"class_list":["post-31875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-bloomberry-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31875","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=31875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31907,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31875\/revisions\/31907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}