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 instructed CNBC late final month.
In November 2024, Singapore’s playing company introduced 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 broaden the built-in resort.
The truncated license renewal has not modified Resorts World Sentosa’s growth 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 yr is known as a game-changing yr for us,” she stated. “Over the subsequent few years… to 2030, we might be persevering with to launch new sights.”
In saying the two-year license renewal, the Playing Regulatory Authority thought of Resorts World Sentosa’s potential 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 large push for us is admittedly reworking Resorts World Sentosa right into a premium way of life vacation spot.”
Tapping into ‘experiences’
Purchasing, as soon as a prime precedence for vacationers in Asia, will not be a precedence within the resort’s transformation, stated Lee.
“Our focus is admittedly into experiences,” Lee stated.
The choice to exchange a “Madagascar” movie-themed space of Common Studios Singapore with Minion Land was, partially, associated to the common attraction of the characters within the “Despicable Me” franchise, she added.
“Minions stood out as a result of … this yellow character could be very resonant to all ages of holiday makers, and all world wide 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,” she stated.
Minions communicate their very own language, known as Minionese, which includes components of English, Spanish, Italian, Chinese language and Tagalog, amongst others, based on the “Despicable Me” fandom web site.
Resorts World Sentosa can also be planning to open new accommodations, together with The Laurus, a luxurious lodge designed like a “collector’s dwelling” in Singapore, that’s set to open later in 2025, Lee stated.
A rendering of Resorts Worlds Sentosa’s deliberate waterfront way of life complicated set to open in 2030.
Resorts World Sentosa
In coming years, the built-in resort is planning to launch Tremendous Nintendo World inside Common Studios Singapore, in addition to an elevated waterfront way of life complicated with 700 rooms, mountain climbing trails and a 289-foot mild sculpture, she stated.
“The waterfront way of life complicated is admittedly going to boost the attraction of the Higher Southern Waterfront,” she stated. The complicated is a “brownfield mission,” which might be seen from mainland Singapore.
Lee declined to touch upon whether or not the deliberate way of life complicated could have gaming amenities.
—CNBC’s Kaela Ling contributed to this report.