Resorts World Sentosa will “be prepared” when Singapore’s Playing Regulatory Authority considers its on line casino license renewal in 2026, the corporate’s CEO Lee Shi Ruh advised CNBC late final month.
In November 2024, Singapore’s playing company announced it was renewing the built-in resort’s on line casino license for 2 years, as an alternative of three, citing “unsatisfactory” tourism efficiency from 2021 to 2023.
The announcement got here after Resorts World Sentosa had pledged to take a position $6.8 billion Singapore {dollars} ($5.3 billion) to resume and increase the built-in resort.
The truncated license renewal has not modified Resorts World Sentosa’s enlargement or funding plans, Lee stated.
The corporate opened two new sights in 2025, Minion Land on the Common Studios Singapore theme park, and the Singapore Oceanarium, which changed the built-in resort’s older S.E.A. Aquarium.
“This 12 months is known as a game-changing 12 months for us,” she stated. “Over the subsequent few years… to 2030, we might be persevering with to launch new sights.”
In announcing the two-year license renewal, the Playing Regulatory Authority thought of Resorts World Sentosa’s means to “develop, keep and promote” itself as a compelling vacationer vacation spot.
When requested which of those areas the resort is targeted on, Lee stated: “The massive push for us is de facto remodeling Resorts World Sentosa right into a premium life-style vacation spot.”
Tapping into ‘experiences’
Purchasing, as soon as a prime precedence for vacationers in Asia, just isn’t a precedence within the resort’s transformation, stated Lee.
“Our focus is de facto into experiences,” Lee stated.
The choice to exchange a “Madagascar” movie-themed space of Common Studios Singapore with Minion Land was, partly, associated to the common enchantment of the characters within the “Despicable Me” franchise, she added.
“Minions stood out as a result of … this yellow character may be very resonate to all ages of tourists, and all around the globe due to the language that they use. It resonates from Asia to Europe to America and all over the place else. So to us, there is a frequent language we are able to use,” she stated.
Minions speak their own language, known as Minionese, which includes parts of English, Spanish, Italian, Chinese language and Tagalog, amongst others, in accordance with the “Despicable Me” fandom web site.
Resorts World Sentosa can also be planning to open new motels, together with The Laurus, a luxurious resort designed like a “collector’s house” in Singapore, that’s set to open later in 2025, Lee stated.
In coming years, the built-in resort is planning to launch Tremendous Nintendo World inside Common Studios Singapore, in addition to an elevated waterfront life-style advanced with a 700-room resort, mountaineering trails and a 289-foot mild sculpture, she stated.
“The waterfront life-style advanced is de facto going to reinforce the enchantment of the Larger Southern Waterfront,” she stated. The advanced is a “brownfield venture,” which might be seen from mainland Singapore.
Lee declined to touch upon whether or not the deliberate life-style advanced may have gaming amenities.
—CNBC’s Kaela Ling contributed to this report.