In the Philippines, Bloomberry’s Greg Hawkins tries to make online part of Solaire solutionMuhammad Cohen

Large scale integrated resorts and legal online gaming coexist under duress in the Philippines. Many attribute slumping IR revenue to digital play. However, Bloomberry president and COO Greg Hawkins tells Clartion’s iGamingBusiness how the company is using online gaming to help revive the company’s fortunes, including at its flagship IR Solaire in Manila’s Entertainment City.

Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.