{"id":777029079,"date":"2025-07-16T12:45:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777029079"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:55:32","slug":"south-korean-casino-stocks-rise-on-incoming-visa-free-travel-for-chinese-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/south-korean-casino-stocks-rise-on-incoming-visa-free-travel-for-chinese-tourists","title":{"rendered":"South Korean casino stocks rise on incoming visa-free travel for Chinese tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The policy will begin in the third quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

South Korea.- Casino stocks have been on the rise ahead of the introduction of a visa-free entry policy for Chinese group tourists from the third quarter of 2025. The share price of Lotte Tour Development, operator of the foreign-only Jeju Dream Tower<\/a>, was up 37.4 per cent month-on-month at the weekend, and up more than 50 per cent since January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other major players such as Paradise Co.<\/a> and Grand Korea Leisure have also seen double-digit growth, outperforming the broader KOSPI index. South Korea\u2019s National Pension Service has responded by boosting its stake in Lotte Tour, signalling institutional confidence in the sector\u2019s potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The casino industry\u2019s fortunes are closely tied to international traffic, as only one of South Korea\u2019s 19 casinos (Kangwon Land) is accessible to residents. All others depend on foreign gamblers, with Chinese tourists accounting for nearly 28 per cent of all international arrivals as of May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The visa-free policy comes at a key moment coinciding with peak travel seasons. Korean Air and other carriers have responded by increasing flight routes. Officials are considering extending the visa-free programme beyond 2025 and including individual travellers. <\/p>\n\n\n

\n\t\t\tSee also:<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> South Korea\u2019s Paradise Co casino revenue rises in May<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The policy will begin in the third quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":9297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"South Korean casino stocks are experiencing significant gains following the announcement of a visa-free entry policy for Chinese group tourists, effective Q3 2025. Operators like Lotte Tour Development, Paradise Co., and Grand Korea Leisure have seen substantial share price appreciation, with the National Pension Service increasing its stake in Lotte Tour, underscoring institutional confidence in the sector's growth trajectory driven by anticipated inbound tourism. This policy is critical as foreign-only casinos heavily rely on international visitors, with Chinese tourists being a major demographic.","focusai_entities":"Lotte Tour Development, Jeju Dream Tower, Paradise Co., Grand Korea Leisure, KOSPI, National Pension Service, Kangwon Land, Korean Air","focusai_location":"South Korea, Jeju","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.98), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.99), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Policy Extension Impact","query":"What is the projected incremental GGR uplift for South Korean foreign-only casinos if the visa-free policy is extended to individual Chinese travelers beyond 2025, and what are the associated capital expenditure requirements?"},{"label":"Operational Readiness","query":"How are South Korean casino operators scaling their B2C infrastructure, including staffing, gaming floor capacity, and payment processing, to accommodate the anticipated surge in Chinese group tourists from Q3 2025, while maintaining regulatory compliance?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338],"tags":[12436,23765,152,24680],"class_list":["post-777029079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-casinos","tag-jeju-dream-tower","tag-south-korea","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777029079","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\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777029079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777029079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777029145,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777029079\/revisions\/777029145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777029079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777029079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777029079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}