{"id":4979,"date":"2020-03-30T02:21:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T02:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:41:53","slug":"sheraton-grand-quarantine-hotel-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sheraton-grand-quarantine-hotel-resort","title":{"rendered":"Sheraton Grand becomes quarantine hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2,000 out of the hotel&#8217;s 4,000 rooms will be used to quarantine people with 500 rooms set to be used immediately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Sands China\u2019s Sheraton Grand Macao at Sands Cotai Central has become the first hotel within one of Macau&#8217;s integrated resorts to be transformed into a <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sjm-casino-hotel\">quarantine hotel<\/a><\/em><\/strong> as part of efforts to stop the spread of Covid-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <em>Inside Asia Gaming<\/em>, the government has earmarked 2,000 of the hotel&#8217;s 4,000 rooms as a \u201cspecial isolated area&#8221;.  Five hundred of these rooms will be occupied immediately with the rest used on demand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 12 hotels have been requisitioned by the SAR government so far, the others being Pousada Marina Infante Hotel, Golden Crown China Hotel, Regency Art Hotel, Grand Coloane Resort, Metropole Hotel, Treasure Hotel, San Tung Fong Commercial Inn South Wing, Grand Lapa, Grand Harbour Hotel, Royal Dragon Hotel and Jai Alai Hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Macau Chief Executive, Ho Lat Seng, asked for hotels to help in the fight against the spread of Coronavirus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We keep looking for more hotels to be appointed quarantine venues but we can\u2019t contact any hotels within integrated resorts,&#8221; the Chief Executive said. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2,000 out of the hotel&#8217;s 4,000 rooms will be used to quarantine people with 500 rooms set to be used immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Macau SAR government has designated 2,000 rooms at Sands China's Sheraton Grand Macao, within Sands Cotai Central, as a quarantine facility. This marks the first instance of an integrated resort hotel in Macau being requisitioned for public health purposes, significantly impacting the property's non-gaming operational capacity and potentially establishing a precedent for other concessionaires.","focusai_entities":"Sands China, Sheraton Grand Macao, Sands Cotai Central, Inside Asia Gaming, Pousada Marina Infante Hotel, Golden Crown China Hotel, Regency Art Hotel, Grand Coloane Resort, Metropole Hotel, Treasure Hotel, San Tung Fong Commercial Inn South Wing, Grand Lapa, Grand Harbour Hotel, Royal Dragon Hotel, Jai Alai Hotel, Ho Lat Seng, Macau SAR government","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.85), compliance_legal (0.75), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Financial Impact Sands?","query":"What is the estimated quarterly financial impact on Sands China's non-gaming GGR and NGR, specifically from the loss of 2,000 room nights at the Sheraton Grand Macao due to government requisition?"},{"label":"Precedent for Concessionaires?","query":"How might this government action influence the risk assessment and contingency planning for other Macau gaming concessionaires regarding potential future asset requisition or operational mandates?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,161,16338],"tags":[7299,257,1720],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-macau","tag-the-13-hotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979","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=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22041,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions\/22041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}