Macau group Alter City, which has been awarded a licence to run a casino in Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands, is considering managing a temporary casino while the group awaits completion of its project.
Alter City managing director Ken Lin said: “We won’t just have a piece of paper living in our drawers for the next few days. We want to get that going. Hopefully, we can use that to explore the options - such as a temporary casino or the training centre here on Tinian - and get that industry back again.”
However, running a temporary casino or a training centre would require an amendment to the Tinian Gaming Act, according to the Saipan Tribune newspaper. This is because the existing regulations are specific about the requirement of a casino operating in a hotel-casino complex having a certain number of hotel rooms and limiting gaming activities to approved areas of casinos.
