{"id":7270,"date":"2020-06-12T22:21:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T22:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=7270"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:27:40","slug":"sihanoukville-chinese-casinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sihanoukville-chinese-casinos","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia gambling destination signs agreements with China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Cambodian city of Sihanoukville, popular for its casinos, wants to promote Chinese tourism to boost its economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Cambodia.- Provincial authorities have signed tourism agreements with 16 Chinese regions in an attempt to boost the economy in the coastal city of Sihanoukville, which is home to several casinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preah Sihanouk province governor Kuoch Chamroeun announced the city has signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with 16 Chinese regional governments to boost investment in tourism, education, sports and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The economy in the Cambodian city of Sihanoukville has seen tremendous growth in recent years, mainly from Chinese travellers attracted to the city\u2019s casinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to VOA Cambodia, Chinese investment in Sihanoukville\u2019s casinos, online gambling, tourism-related infrastructure projects and housing between 2016 and 2019 amounted to about US$2 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amax International Holdings Limited<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is one operator with interests in this city, which is home to the Goddess of Liberty Hotel and Casino<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Cambodian ban on online gambling<\/a><\/em><\/strong> has slowed down interest since January 2019, while travel restrictions introduced because of Covid-19 have been felt hard in Sihanoukville, where Cambodia\u2019s first coronavirus case was reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While casinos remain closed due to the pandemic, the goal is to allow Chinese business owners and workers to return to the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cambodian city of Sihanoukville, popular for its casinos, wants to promote Chinese tourism to boost its economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Sihanoukville, Cambodia, is actively pursuing renewed Chinese tourism and investment through MOUs with 16 Chinese regional governments to revitalize its economy, heavily reliant on the gaming sector. This initiative aims to mitigate the adverse impacts of Cambodia's 2019 online gambling ban and ongoing COVID-19 travel restrictions, which have significantly curtailed the influx of Chinese capital and patronage to the city's casinos and related infrastructure. The strategy focuses on attracting Chinese business owners and workers to stimulate economic recovery.","focusai_entities":"Amax International Holdings Limited, Kuoch Chamroeun, VOA Cambodia, Goddess of Liberty Hotel and Casino","focusai_location":"Cambodia, Sihanoukville, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Sihanoukville Investment Outlook?","query":"What specific investment incentives or regulatory adjustments are being considered by Cambodian authorities to attract Chinese capital beyond the current MOUs, particularly for the gaming sector?"},{"label":"Online Gambling Ban Impact?","query":"How have the Cambodian online gambling ban and subsequent economic downturn impacted the operational viability and asset valuations of existing land-based casino operators in Sihanoukville?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16333],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-7270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270","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=7270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21874,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270\/revisions\/21874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}