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Japan – Suncity opent een kantoor om het Wakayama IR2.0-concept te promoten
By Phil - 14 september 2020
Asian junket investor Suncity Group has now opened an office in Wakayama which it will use as a promotional base in its attempts to land one of Japan’s first integrated resorts with its Wakayama IR2.0 concept.
The newly established Wakayama office will show concept videos and a scale model of the project.
Suncity has said it would spend between HK$30bn and HK$35bn (US$3.8bn to US$4.5bn) on an Integrated Resort in its Wakayama, in the Kansai region, on Honshū island’s Kii Peninsula.
Suncity CEO Alvin Chau zei dat de visie was voor een 'uniek project dat de historische traditie, het natuurlijke landschap en de culturele essentie van de prefectuur Wakayama combineert.'
It will offer 2,600 rooms and villas, restaurants and a sky lounge, hot springs and spas, a substantial exhibition venue, indoor sports facilities and boat tours to nearby coastal towns and tourist attractions.
Mr. Chau said: “We will present to the world the unique charm of Wakayama. I believe our ideas are in line with what the Japanese government is looking for in regional development Wakayama is rich in Japanese tradition and culture and has an abundance of nature in the mountains and sea. We are planning a resort that incorporates these charms. We will challenge regional revitalization centering on integrated resort facilities. We will promote the development of international tourism cities that make the most of the assets of Wakayama Prefecture, the nature, culture, history and people’s activities focusing on integrated resort facilities.”
Only two casino companies, have lodged proposals for the request-for-proposal (RFP) process to develop a casino on an artificial island called Marina City in the Japanese prefecture of Wakayama, located east of Osaka Canada-based Clairvest mounting the challenge to Suncity.
Het Bureau had eerder gezegd dat meer dan twintig internationale IR-operatoren uit Noord-Amerika, Europa en Azië hun interesse hadden geuit op een IR-forum dat belangstelling trok van operationele groepen, waaronder Solaire, Lucien Barriere, Mohegan Gaming, Bloomberry Resorts en Galaxy Entertainment. De regering wil dat de IR een hotel met 20 kamers heeft, een congrescentrum en een tentoonstellingsruimte. Marina City ligt op ongeveer 2,500 minuten rijden van de internationale luchthaven Kansai en op 40 minuten rijden van Osaka. De infrastructuur is al goed ontwikkeld met veel hotels en een pretpark gebaseerd op middeleeuwse Europese stadsgezichten.
