Singapore Casino Attracts Record Amount of Visitors

Resorts World Sentosa, the first casino to open in Singapore, has attracted 35,000 visitors in just two days. Visits to the Sentosa Island were up by 20% to 75,000, when compared with 2009’s tourist levels. In order to cope with demand, the casino management split the queues into Singapore residents and overseas visitors. While the former managed to get into the new resort relatively quickly, reports have suggested that the foreign visitors queue often surpassed the 100 metre mark, with some queuing for over two hours.

Only a few of the attractions at the casino opened over the weekend, but those that did took in a phenomenal amount of visitors, with patrons having to queue for 30-40 minutes for a table. The Singapore newspaper, Straits Times, has remarked that the queues were an unexpected “teething problem” for Resorts World Sentosa, with visitor surges throughout the weekend meaning that many were refused entry during peak times. Krist Boo, the vice-president of communications at Resorts World told reporters that the queues were often “overwhelming”, noting that they have had a “very good response to the casino opening”.


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