{"id":6387,"date":"2020-05-12T11:34:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T11:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:19:46","slug":"skycity-reopen-casino-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-reopen-casino-new-zealand","title":{"rendered":"SkyCity casinos to reopen from Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Casinos in Auckland, Hamilton and Queenstown will allow customers through their doors for the first time since late March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>New Zealand.- SkyCity Entertainment Group will reopen its casinos to the public on Thursday after the country&#8217;s Covid-19 alert level was dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Casinos in Auckland, Hamilton and Queenstown will allow customers through their doors for the first time since late March but with additional safety measures in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All SkyCity properties will see distinct zones created on the main gaming floor so that less than 100 guests or staff are present at any one time, as per government guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slot machine layouts are to be changed to ensure appropriate social distancing, while reduced seating will be in place at gaming tables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SkyCity <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-jobs-new-zealand-casino\">announced yesterday that 700 more jobs could be lost<\/a><\/em><\/strong> due to the financial impact of Covid-19 on the sector and its business. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casinos in Auckland, Hamilton and Queenstown will allow customers through their doors for the first time since late March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"SkyCity Entertainment Group is recommencing casino operations in Auckland, Hamilton, and Queenstown, New Zealand, following a reduction in national COVID-19 alert levels. The reopening mandates stringent operational adjustments, including distinct gaming zones and social distancing protocols, while the company simultaneously navigates significant workforce restructuring with potential job losses due to sustained financial pressures.","focusai_entities":"SkyCity Entertainment Group","focusai_location":"New Zealand, Auckland, Hamilton, Queenstown","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), product_ux (0.75), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.75), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Projections","query":"What are SkyCity's revised Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) recovery projections for H2 2020, considering the operational capacity constraints and anticipated impact on player visitation rates?"},{"label":"Regulatory Compliance Costs","query":"How will the implementation of new health and safety protocols, including distinct gaming zones and social distancing, impact SkyCity's ongoing operational expenditure and regulatory compliance costs?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,28,161],"tags":[29,338,1137],"class_list":["post-6387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news","category-daily-news","tag-casino","tag-new-zealand","tag-skycity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387","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=6387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6405,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions\/6405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}