Nepal felt the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on tourism, deciding to close all resorts and casinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Nepal.- While most of the countries in the world are staying in quarantine, tourism is facing the impact and so are all related industries. Nepal has decided to shut down hotel operations and casinos until the situation improves, according to local media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The closures follow an official circular from the Home Ministry of the Government of Nepal<\/strong><\/em> outlining a series of restrictions to curb the spread of the virus, including prohibiting public gatherings of more than 25 people. Australian-listed Silver Heritage Group announced the temporary closure of its two Nepal casinos, Tiger Palace Resort Bhairahawa and The Millionaires Club and Casino Kathmandu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nepal has seen a severe decline in the inflow of foreign tourists due to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nepal felt the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on tourism, deciding to close all resorts and casinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Nepal has mandated the temporary closure of all resorts and casinos, including those operated by Australian-listed Silver Heritage Group and Hyatt Regency, to curb the spread of the coronavirus. This government directive, issued by the Home Ministry, significantly impacts the nation's tourism and iGaming sectors, leading to operational cessation and revenue loss for affected entities.","focusai_entities":"Silver Heritage Group, Tiger Palace Resort Bhairahawa, The Millionaires Club and Casino Kathmandu, Hyatt Regency, Govinda Pariyar, Home Ministry of the Government of Nepal","focusai_location":"Nepal, Bhairahawa, Kathmandu","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (1.0), payments_fraud_aml (0.75), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Silver Heritage?","query":"What is the projected GGR and NGR impact for Silver Heritage Group's Nepalese operations, and how will this affect their Q1\/Q2 financial reporting?"},{"label":"Regulatory Compliance Post-Closure?","query":"What specific regulatory compliance adjustments or licensing fee deferrals are being considered by the Nepalese government for operators during and after this mandated closure period?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16334],"tags":[29,5763],"class_list":["post-4745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745","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=4745"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008209,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions\/777008209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Hyatt Regency did the same: \u201cWe have decided to shut down the hotel for at least six weeks beginning March 21. While the hotel lacks business, the decision also intends to prevent the possible spread of coronavirus among our staff and guests,\u201d said Govinda Pariyar, PR manager at Hyatt Regency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n