JW Marriott expects to open the resort by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
United Arab Emirates.- JW Marriott has announced that it will open a luxury resort at Wynn Resorts’ proposed Wynn Al Marjan in Ras\u00a0Al\u00a0Khaimah. Wynn’s planned US$3.9bn integrated resort is expected to open in early 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anticipated to attract 5 million tourists annually, the JW Marriott resort would have 524 residences, including penthouses, and 300 guest rooms. The CEO of Marjan,\u00a0Arch Abdula Al Abdouli, said Marriott’s entry to the prohect had the potential to enhance investment opportunities for residents and tourists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Craig Billings, CEO of Wynn Resorts, expressed the expectation of obtaining a gaming licence during the company\u2019s second-quarter earnings call.\u00a0The United Arab Emirates has formed a gambling regulator,\u00a0the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA)<\/a>, which will govern commercial gaming and lotteries.\u00a0Kevin Mullally, a veteran of US gambling regulation, has been named the GCGRA\u2019s chief executive. However, the emirates have yet to legalise casinos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JW Marriott expects to open the resort by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":9219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"JW Marriott is set to open a luxury resort within Wynn Resorts' US$3.9bn Wynn Al Marjan integrated resort in Ras Al Khaimah by late 2026, ahead of the full resort's early 2027 opening. This development occurs as Wynn anticipates securing a gaming license, following the UAE's establishment of the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA) to oversee commercial gaming, despite casinos not yet being formally legalized.","focusai_entities":"JW Marriott, Wynn Resorts, Wynn Al Marjan, Marjan, General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority, Arch Abdula Al Abdouli, Craig Billings, Kevin Mullally","focusai_location":"United Arab Emirates, Ras Al Khaimah","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.95), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GCGRA Regulatory Scope?","query":"What specific regulatory frameworks and licensing conditions is the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA) expected to implement for commercial gaming and lotteries, particularly concerning the current non-legalization of casinos?"},{"label":"Wynn's Licensing Strategy?","query":"Given the UAE's current stance on casino legalization, what is Wynn Resorts' precise strategy for securing a gaming license, and what are the anticipated timelines and prerequisites for such approval?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16334],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777011333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-asia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011333","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777011333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777040920,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011333\/revisions\/777040920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777011333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777011333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777011333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}