Japan is expected to soon reveal its gambling bill to license two integrated casino resorts. Companies that don’t receive a license there might look to Vietnam as option B.<\/p>\n
Vietnam doesn’t have the luxury of being home to dozens of major corporations like Japan and China that routinely bring in thousands of travelers to the country. That’s why Vinh believes the nation’s emerging integrated casino market might need to employ junket operators to bring wealthy travelers from Southeast Asian countries to Vietnam.<\/p>\n
\n“The Vietnamese government and Vietnamese travel agencies have no experience in gaming,” Vinh explained at the gaming discussion. “They have to rely on the junkets to provide players by bringing them via chartered flights from Macau.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nA concern, however, is that China prevents the marketing of gambling to its citizens. Australia’s Crown Resorts found that out the hard way when several of its employees, including VIP executive Jason O’Connor, were detained for 10 months for promoting gambling charges last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vietnamese casinos are barred from allowing local citizens to access their gaming floors, but a government advisor reveals this week that the longstanding policy will change next month. Augustine Ha Ton Vinh, a government advisor to Vietnam who’s helping to shape the country’s integrated resorts regulations, said during a gaming discussion moderated by GGRAsia that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":63572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13,18,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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