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Australia – Crown Resorts shutters Asia offices
By Lewis - 7 July 2017
Crown’s offices in eight Asian countries from Macau to Indonesia which helped attract gamblers in the region to its resorts in Australia appear to have closed. Staff who were detained in China in October are due to appear in a Shanghai court on charges related to promoting gambling, and billionaire James Packer’s company now lists Hong Kong as its sole international outpost.
Crown Resorts’ apparent dismantling of its Asian office network threatens to choke the flow of overseas visitors to the company’s Australian casinos and a planned $US1.5bn (A$2bn) flagship resort in Sydney. Crown Resorts’ apparent dismantling of its Asian office network threatens to choke the flow of overseas visitors to the company’s Australian casinos and a planned $US1.5bn (A$2bn) flagship resort in Sydney. Offshore visitors generated more than a third of the revenue in Crown’s Melbourne operation in the last fiscal year.
