{"id":8860,"date":"2020-08-10T23:52:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T23:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=8860"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:54:24","slug":"casino-canberra-reopens-after-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/casino-canberra-reopens-after-lockdown","title":{"rendered":"Casino Canberra reopens after lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aquis Entertainment&#8217;s casino had been shut for almost four months due to lockdown measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- Casino Canberra has reopened its doors to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Aquis Entertainment Limited casino will open seven days a week, from noon until 4am, according to an announcement on its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company is requesting guests and players keep a 1.5-metre distance from one another, use hand sanitizer regularly and go through a temperature check upon entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patrons will only be served alcohol while seated, and there will be a limited capacity of 100 people per defined area, excluding staff, and a limit of one person per four square metres of usable space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staff currently on stand down will be called back depending on the role and the permitted capacity limits. The firm made <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/aquis-entertainment-casino-canberra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some job cuts in March<\/a><\/em><\/strong> due to the closure of the casino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The firm said in the announcement: \u201cYou can be assured that our focus remains on the health and safety of our patrons, employees and the community\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aquis Entertainment&#8217;s casino had been shut for almost four months due to lockdown measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Casino Canberra, operated by Aquis Entertainment, has reopened after a four-month lockdown, implementing stringent health and safety protocols including capacity limits, social distancing, and temperature checks. The reopening signals a partial resumption of operations for the land-based gaming vertical, albeit under revised operational frameworks.","focusai_entities":"Aquis Entertainment Limited, Casino Canberra","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), gambler_consumer (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Projections?","query":"What are the projected GGR recovery trajectories for Casino Canberra, considering the imposed capacity constraints and operational adjustments?"},{"label":"Financial Impact Analysis?","query":"How will the revised operational model and associated costs impact Aquis Entertainment's Q3\/Q4 financial performance and NGR?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,28,158],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-8860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news","category-slider-home","tag-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860","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=8860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8874,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions\/8874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}