Along with the casino being open in limited capacity, other areas of the Manila resorts are operating. Indoor dining is limited to 40 percent capacity and 60 percent outdoors, and gyms can accommodate 40 percent of their typical capacity. Hotels are also open to leisure visitors.<\/p>\n
The Manila casinos are encouraging Filipinos to take staycations during this most unusual time. Deals are aplenty, too. Guestrooms at the five-star luxurious integrated resorts can be booked for as little as $100 a night.<\/p>\n
The four Manila integrated resorts continue to rack up operating losses compared with pre-pandemic 2019.<\/p>\n
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Through three quarters in 2019, the four casinos reported gross gaming revenue (GGR) of PHP133.66 billion (US$2.61 billion). Through three quarters of 2021 — the most recently reported casino income period — total GGR is PHP62 billion (US$1.21 billion).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Manila’s gaming industry has been able to generate GGR throughout the pandemic, even when their brick-and-mortar properties were ordered closed by the republic. That’s due to the government allowing the casinos to operate iGaming websites for their known VIP foreign clientele.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Manila will remain under Alert Level 3 in the Philippines through at least the end of January. The Philippines Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) is maintaining its COVID-19 alert status on the capital metro for the next two weeks. Manila has been under Alert Level 3 since January 5. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":198202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69069,81881],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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