{"id":73918,"date":"2017-12-07T14:50:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T07:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lawrence-ho-wants-melco-resorts-to-go-hi-tech-with-digital-butler-melvis-to-pamper-guests\/"},"modified":"2017-12-07T15:06:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T08:06:05","slug":"lawrence-ho-wants-melco-resorts-to-go-hi-tech-with-digital-butler-melvis-to-pamper-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lawrence-ho-wants-melco-resorts-to-go-hi-tech-with-digital-butler-melvis-to-pamper-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Ho wants Melco resorts to go hi-tech, with digital butler Melvis to pamper guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nLawrence Ho, trim, energetic and 40-something, is establishing himself as a new thinker in the casino sector. Talk to Ho about the future of his company, Melco International, and he keeps coming back to the need for something to be \u201ccool\u201d, in the mould of his cinematic heroes: James Bond, or anything by Sylvester Stallone.<br \/>\nMelco International did not get seriously involved in the casino business until 2004, when Ho partnered with Australian billionaire and casino operator James&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/companies\/article\/2123316\/lawrence-ho-wants-melco-resorts-go-hi-tech-digital-butler-melvis\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Ho wants Melco resorts to go hi-tech, with digital butler Melvis to pamper guests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Lawrence Ho, trim, energetic and 40-something, is establishing himself as a new thinker in the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-jee","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":103280,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-develop-properties-for-the-next-generation-traveler-melco-ceo\/","url_meta":{"origin":73918,"position":0},"title":"We develop properties for the &#039;next generation&#039; traveler: Melco CEO","date":"January 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Lawrence Ho, CEO and chairman of Melco Resorts & Entertainment, says one of its properties, Studio City in Macau, is in a \"very sweet spot\" to benefit from China\u2019s Greater Bay Area initiative.\r \r Source : cnbc.com\r Read more...We develop properties for the 'next generation' traveler: Melco CEO","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19590,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/zaha-hadids-last-architectural-hurrah-in-macau\/","url_meta":{"origin":73918,"position":1},"title":"Zaha Hadid\u2019s last architectural hurrah in Macau","date":"July 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r China\u2019s casino capital will have the honour of seeing one of the legendary architect\u2019s last works Zaha Hadid. 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