One draw is the surge of cheap flights, with round-trip tickets from Hong Kong costing as little as $162 and from Seoul starting at $248. The Philippines already gets 30% of its casino revenue from abroad, led by Koreans and Chinese, and the new gambling palaces figure to attract much greater numbers of free-spending foreign tourists.

Resorts World says it will open 5,400 slot machines and 800 gaming tables. Okada’s project and Resorts World are shaping up as the two biggest projects by land area, with the four aiming to share evenly a total of 5,000 hotel rooms. 35) and Resorts World Bayshore, a partnership between Malaysia’s Genting Group, controlled by the family of billionaire Lim Kim Hua, and Alliance Global Group, a Philippine food industry conglomerate run by billionaire Andrew Tan. and his Bloomberry Resorts the SM Consortium, backed by the country’s richest person, Henry Sy billionaire Japanese pachinko king Kazuo Okada (see box, p.

Licenses went to Philippine billionaire Enrique Razon Jr. Total investment is projected at $5 billion. The four casinos will anchor the square-kilometer Bagong Nayong Pilipino Entertainment City and will see some of Asia’s richest tycoons face off against one another.

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