{"id":4586,"date":"2020-03-18T12:12:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T12:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=4586"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:58:52","slug":"start-entertainment-casinos-closure-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/start-entertainment-casinos-closure-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Star Ent rolls out additional prevention measures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Its casinos in Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast will close for four hours each morning for extra cleaning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.-Star Entertainment Group will close its three casinos in Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast for four hours each morning for a \u201cdeep cleaning\u201d starting from tomorrow, the operator has confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <em>Inside Asian Gaming<\/em>, the Star Sydney will close its doors between 6am and 10am while The Star Gold Coast and Treasury Brisbane will close from 4am to 8am daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest measure comes after Star announced earlier this week that it will switch off every second electronic machine, and restrict the number of players at gambling tables. In addition, the operator said it would limit the number of casino visitors to 500 at any one time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Star Entertainment Group is actively engaging with governments in NSW and Queensland and working through our specific position given our properties operate in a precinct fashion,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia\u2019s casinos are expected to be forced to close their doors later this week, according to analysts at JP Morgan.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its casinos in Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast will close for four hours each morning for extra cleaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Star Entertainment Group is implementing temporary operational restrictions across its Sydney, Brisbane, and Gold Coast casinos, including daily four-hour closures for deep cleaning, reduced electronic gaming machine availability, and visitor capacity limits. These measures precede potential mandated full closures later this week, as anticipated by JP Morgan analysts. The operator is actively engaging with NSW and Queensland governments regarding its precinct-based operations.","focusai_entities":"Star Entertainment Group, The Star Sydney, The Star Gold Coast, Treasury Brisbane, JP Morgan, Inside Asian Gaming","focusai_location":"Australia, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, NSW, Queensland","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected impact on Star Entertainment Group's Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) for Q2 and Q3, considering these operational restrictions and potential full closures?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework","query":"How do these voluntary operational adjustments by Star Entertainment Group align with or preempt potential mandatory regulatory directives from NSW and Queensland gaming authorities?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,16336,28],"tags":[289,29,1295],"class_list":["post-4586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news","tag-australia","tag-casino","tag-star-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586","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=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21461,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions\/21461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}