March 11, 2021
Officials in Nagasaki Prefecture have reportedly announced that whoever is selected as the jurisdiction’s preferred operating partner for its envisioned integrated casino resort will be required to hand over more than $1.5 million to cover a multitude of costs.
According to a report from Inside Asian Gaming, the Kyushu community is home to approximately 1.3 million people and is hoping to win the right to host one of Japan’s coming trio of Las Vegas-style developments. The source also detailed that Nagasaki Prefecture wants its envisioned $10 billion facility to sit on a 74-acre plot of land located next to the Huis Ten Bosch theme park so as to help boost its economy through increased levels of tourism.
Authorities in Japan’s Nagasaki prefecture are communicating with casino operators not previously in the direct orbit of the metropolis, with a view to possibly boosting the number of contenders for its upcoming request-for-proposal (RFP) process regarding getting a casino resort there, a Nagasaki official has confirmed to GGRAsia.
“We cannot comment about where the operators are from, but Nagasaki prefecture is open to continuing discussions with interested operators from Japan and overseas until we begin our public tender,” said the official, who asked not to be identified by name.
In Japan such schemes are known as integrated resorts (IRs). Up to three will be permitted nationally in a first phase of market liberalisation.