One of Singapore's integrated resorts, Resorts World Sentosa, will begin opening its doors in phases from January 20. The resort said its four hotels - Crockfords Tower, Hotel Michael, Festive Hotel and Hard Rock Hotel Singapore - will be opened on that day. Resorts World Sentosa began operations at two of its four hotels on Tuesday, and employees and their families were the resort's main guests before...
Resorts World at Sentosa
Visitors are one step closer to visiting Southeast Asia’s first and only Universal Studios theme park opening on Sentosa's Resorts World, now that ticket prices have been revealed. Sale of tickets shouldn't be too far on the horizon with Resorts World Sentosa announcing on Wednesday its one-day, two-day and express pass ticket prices that range from S$32 to S$118 to access all attractions. “We have...
Genting Berhad is on track to open the 'Resorts World at Sentosa' in Singapore by early January 2010, said its chairman and chief executive Lim Kok Thay. Bernama news agency quoted Mr Lim as saying the project, which cost S$6.6 billion, would attract 12 to 13 million visitors in the first full year of operation. "Construction is going on smoothly. We are targeting to open it by early January 2010," he...
Singapore's second integrated resort operator, Resorts World at Sentosa, has refuted accusations that more than half of the 10,000 jobs available would go to foreigners. Its management says Singaporeans remain its top priority when hiring, and it is receiving up to a thousand applications a day. The comments were made at the media preview of four new hotels that will be opening on the island next...
Operator of Singapore's second integrated resort, Resorts World at Sentosa, said it is on track to open four of its six hotels by the first quarter of 2010, adding some 1,350 rooms in the Republic. Even though tourist arrivals, hotel occupancy and room rates have been falling due to the global economic slowdown, the integrated resort will be launched as scheduled. The IR expects to fill 9,000 job...
A new bridge linking mainland Singapore to Resorts World at Sentosa is expected to open later this year. Resorts World said it should receive traffic ahead of its grand opening. The 710-metre bridge is expected to serve some 15 million visitors a year once the resort is fully operational. After completion, the traffic flow to Sentosa will be realigned. The three lanes are capable of handling some 6,000...
IRs expected to meet economic targets, albeit with impact from crisis THE promise, when the Government decided to allow the Integrated Resorts (IRs) in, was a $1.5-billion increase in our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 35,000 new jobs - but will these economic rewards now materialise? And if so, when? In response to questions by Nominated MP Eunice Olsen and Non-Constituency MP Sylvia Lim yesterday,...
Don't bet on it! That's the advice from quite a few observers as the people behind Singapore's two planned integrated resorts insist that they will open on time. Marina Bay Sands is scheduled to open at the end of next year. Sentosa Resorts World is set to open in the first quarter of 2010. Upset contractors, who say the two operators are trying to renegotiate the prices verbally agreed upon for their...
Singapore will have an edge over Macau when the first of its integrated resorts is completed in 2009. This is because the Republic is already an established tourist destination, said gaming experts at the Asian Casinos Executive Summit on Tuesday. Integrated resorts with casinos are not just about gambling. They now include family-friendly attractions, business-focused trade shows, restaurants and...
ECONOMIC growth forecasts may be trimmed, and hiring may falter, but a slowing economy may actually turn out to be a blessing in disguise for Singapore's integrated resorts (IRs). So says Mr Mike Barclay, the new chief executive of Sentosa Leisure Group, which manages the 500-hectare (1,235-acre) island on Singapore's southern tip where the Resorts World at Sentosa integrated resort is being built. "With...