{"id":4115,"date":"2020-03-04T10:05:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T10:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:21:00","slug":"genting-casino-measures-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/genting-casino-measures-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Genting steps up Coronavirus prevention measures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Additional cleaning and the installation of hand sanitiser dispensers among additional measures being rolled out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia.- Resorts World Genting has announced additional measures aimed at protecting guests and staff while the Coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across Asia and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Executive Vice-President of Leisure and Hospitality, Datuk Edward Holloway, said these measures included increasing the cleaning frequency of escalators and lift buttons and placing sanitiser gel throughout the resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information notices regarding Coronavirus have been placed around the resort with thermal scanners deployed at the cable car entry points, designated checkpoints and all entrances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Anyone with flu-like symptoms such as fever and cough will asked to seek medical assistance at clinics.  The team is also monitoring global updates on the outbreak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We want to reassure everybody that we are doing as much as possible to practise due care because life must go on. We can fight the virus,&#8221; Holloway said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To date, there has been no record of anyone in the resort being diagnosed with the virus. We are open for business as usual.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding cancellations from tour groups, Holloway said the operator was offering refunds: \u201cWe don\u2019t want to penalise anyone. We have to be fair to everyone. Together we can fight this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional cleaning and the installation of hand sanitiser dispensers among additional measures being rolled out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Resorts World Genting has implemented enhanced operational hygiene protocols, including increased cleaning frequencies, sanitiser deployment, and thermal screening, to mitigate public health risks associated with the Coronavirus outbreak. Despite offering full refunds for tour group cancellations, the integrated resort maintains business as usual, reporting no confirmed cases and focusing on operational continuity and stakeholder reassurance.","focusai_entities":"Resorts World Genting, Datuk Edward Holloway","focusai_location":"Malaysia, Asia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected impact on Resorts World Genting's Q1\/Q2 GGR and NGR, considering the reported tour group cancellations and potential sustained reduction in footfall due to regional travel advisories?"},{"label":"Crisis Management Benchmarking","query":"How do these operational adjustments and communication strategies align with broader industry best practices for crisis management and public health compliance within integrated resort environments, particularly concerning B2C customer confidence?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16333],"tags":[29,7299,226],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-coronavirus","tag-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","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=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}