Asia-Pacific’s leading B2B gaming and leisure industry media company Inside Asian Gaming is pleased to announce the official nominees for the 2023 IAG Academy IR Awards.
The official nominations have been selected from no less than a colossal 432 public nominations, with the winners to be announced at a gala dinner to be held at The Ballroom at Hilton Manila, Newport World Resorts, on the evening of Wednesday 13 September 2023.
The IAG Academy IR Awards form part of IAG’s Super September, which also comprises social networking event Manila After Dark on the evening of 12 September and the IAG Academy Summit on 13 and 14 September.
“First of all I would like to thank all of those people who took the time to make public nominations,” said IAG Vice Chairman and CEO, Andrew W Scott.
“An enormous amount of effort went into the nominations and some of the PDFs and videos that were submitted were really works of art. It was an incredibly difficult job to cull down the 432 public nominations to these 117 official nominations and a lot of excellent nominations ended up on the cutting room floor.
Just being a nominee in this list is really an achievement to be proud of. And to those who didn’t make the cut, please do not be disheartened, there were a lot of worthy contenders there, and please try again next year!”
The 117 official nominations are divided across the 20 primary categories and three Hall of Honor categories as follows:
| CATEGORY | NOMINATIONS | |
| Public | Official | |
| 01. Best Overall Architectural Impact of an IR | 20 | 5 |
| 02. Best IR Resort Attraction | 24 | 5 |
| 03. Best Overall Retail Offering by an IR | 17 | 4 |
| 04. Best Overall F&B Offering by an IR | 21 | 4 |
| 05. Best Hotel Attached to an IR | 32 | 5 |
| 06. Best Slot Solution | 23 | 5 |
| 07. Best ETG Solution | 11 | 4 |
| 08. Best Table Game Solution | 21 | 4 |
| 09. Best Membership Program | 27 | 4 |
| 10. Best Gaming Floor | 17 | 5 |
| 11. Best CSR Initiative | 18 | 4 |
| 12. Best Overall CSR Program | 17 | 5 |
| 13. Best Legal and Compliance Program | 14 | 4 |
| 14. Best IR Workplace | 25 | 5 |
| 15. Best Corporate Image | 15 | 5 |
| 16. Best Industry Solution | 15 | 4 |
| 17. Best Industry Innovation | 11 | 4 |
| 18. Best Industry Supplier | 18 | 6 |
| 19. Best Regional Asia-Pacific IR | 12 | 5 |
| 20. Best Integrated Resort | 17 | 4 |
| Hall of Honor: Rising Stars | 25 | 10 |
| Hall of Honor: Industry Icons | 17 | 10 |
| Hall of Honor: Outstanding CEO | 15 | 6 |
| 432 | 117 | |
The official nominations are as follows:
1. Best Overall Architectural Impact of an IR
- Crown Resorts for Crown Sydney
- Galaxy Entertainment Group for Galaxy Macau
- Marina Bay Sands
- Sands China Limited for Londoner Macao
- Sands China Limited for Parisian Macao
2. Best IR Resort Attraction
- Bloomberry Resorts Corporation for the Sky Range Shooting Club, Solaire
- Galaxy Entertainment Group for the Grand Resort Deck, Galaxy Macau
- Marina Bay Sands for the SkyPark Observation Deck
- Melco Resorts & Entertainment for the Studio City Water Park
- Tiger Resort Leisure and Entertainment for the Fountain at Okada Manila
3. Best Overall Retail Offering by an IR
- Galaxy Entertainment Group for Galaxy Promenade
- The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands
- Sands China Limited for Shoppes at Londoner
- Sands China Limited for Shoppes at Venetian
4. Best Overall F&B Offering by an IR
- Galaxy Entertainment Group for Galaxy Macau
- Marina Bay Sands
- Melco Resorts & Entertainment for City of Dreams Macau
- SJM Resorts for Grand Lisboa
5. Best Hotel Attached to an IR
- Londoner Court at The Londoner Macao
- The Marina Bay Sands hotel
- Hotel Okura Manila at Newport World Resorts
- The Ritz-Carlton at Galaxy Macau
- The Wynn Palace hotel
6. Best Slot Solution
- Aristocrat for Dragon Link
- Aruze for Fu Lai Cai Lai Link
- IGT for Ying Fu Wa Link
- Konami for Ba Fang Jin Bao
- Light & Wonder for Duo Fu Duo Cai Grand
7. Best ETG Solution
- Interblock for Interblock stadiums
- Light & Wonder for Quartz standalone
- Light & Wonder for Fusion stadiums
- LT Game for live multi-game stadiums
8. Best Table Game Solution
- Abbiati for Abbiati tables
- Angel Group for Angel Eye Complete
- Light & Wonder for GM Atlas
- Walker Digital Table Systems for Perfect Pay
9. Best Membership Program
- Galaxy Entertainment Group for Privilege Club
- MGM China for Mlife
- Newport World Resorts for Epic Rewards
- Okada Manila for Reward Circle
10. Best Gaming Floor
- Bloomberry Resorts Corporation for Solaire
- Galaxy Entertainment Group for Galaxy Macau
- Marina Bay Sands
- Sands China Limited for The Venetian Macao
- Tiger Resort Leisure and Entertainment for Okada Manila
11. Best CSR Initiative
- NagaCorp for the Environmental Care Program
- Galaxy Entertainment Group for the IR Youth Development Program
- MGM China for Artistic Swimming Elite Extravaganza
- Wynn Macau for the Wynn Cup (Macau Primary School Student National Education Drawing Competition)
12. Best Overall CSR Program
- Galaxy Entertainment Group for Giving Back to Society
- Hoiana Resort & Golf for Hoiana Cares
- Melco Resorts & Entertainment for Simple Acts of Kindness
- NagaWorld for Kind Hearts Program
- Newport World Resorts for League Of Volunteer Employees (LOVE)
13. Best Legal and Compliance Program
- Marina Bay Sands
- Newport World Resorts
- Sands China Limited
- MGM China Limited
14. Best IR Workplace
- G1 Entertainment for Tigre de Cristal
- Hann Philippines Inc for Hann Casino Resort
- Melco Resorts & Entertainment for City of Dreams Macau
- MGM China for MGM Cotai
- Sands China Limited for Londoner Macao
15. Best Corporate Image
- Bloomberry Resorts Corporation
- Galaxy Entertainment Group
- Marina Bay Sands
- Sands China Limited
- Wynn Macau Limited
16. Best Industry Solution
- Angel Group for Angel Eye Complete
- Walker Digital Table Systems for Perfect Pay
- Light & Wonder for Duo Fu Duo Cai Grand
- Aristocrat for Dragon Link
17. Best Industry Innovation
- VAULT for Chang Le App
- Newport World Resorts for the wheelchair accessible baccarat table
- Sands China Limited for Londoner rebranding
- Angel Group for Angel Eye Complete
18. Best Industry Supplier
- Angel Group
- Aristocrat
- IGT
- Interblock
- Light & Wonder
- Mega Fortris
19. Best Regional Asia-Pacific IR
- Bloomberry Resorts Corporation for Solaire
- Crown Resorts for Crown Sydney
- Hann Philippines Inc for Hann Casino Resort
- Tiger Resort Leisure and Entertainment for Okada Manila
- NagaCorp for NagaWorld
20. Best Integrated Resort
- Galaxy Entertainment Group for Galaxy Macau
- Marina Bay Sands
- Sands China Limited for The Londoner Macao
- Sands China Limited for The Venetian Macao
Hall of Honor: Rising Stars
- Jack Curtis
- Mark Howell
- Walter Mactal
- Daniel Milrad
- Wendy Ni
- Vladislav Rolgeyer
- Joe Sam
- Ankur Sharma
- Phil Stormonth
- Yusuke Urata
(Titles and organizations will added and shown at iagacad.com/ir-awards-official-nominations in due course)
Hall of Honor: Industry Icons
- Dennis Andreaci
- Cheryl Callaghan
- Michael Cheers
- Hakan Dagtas
- Michael Hu
- Michael Jensen
- Manida Lau
- Panos Makridis
- Danny McDonagh
- Harold Tsakmaklis
(Titles and organizations will added and shown at iagacad.com/ir-awards-official-nominations in due course)
Hall of Honor: Outstanding CEO
- Mr Daesik Han, Hann Philippines Inc
- Mr Lawrence Ho, Melco Resorts & Entertainment
- Ms Pansy Ho, MGM China
- Mr Francis Lui, Galaxy Entertainment Group
- Mr Enrique Razon, Bloomberry Resorts Corporation
- Dr Wilfred Wong, Sands China Limited
The official nominations listed above will soon be uploaded to iagacad.com/ir-awards-official-nominations.
More information on the awards categories including a description of each is available at iagacad.com/ir-awards-awards-categories.
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