Patrick Dumont : I apologize. I think the key thing here is that we’re very committed to investing in the Macao market. We think this investment will drive additional long-term tourism value and diversification of Macao’s economy. We’re very excited to make these investments, and we think these are things that will really help achieve our goals in the goals of the government. So we’re looking forward to it actually.
Robin Farley : Thank you.
Operator: Thank you. The next question is coming from Shaun Kelley from Bank of America. Shaun, your line is live.
Shaun Kelley : Good afternoon. Good morning, Grant. So just high level, as you kind of look through kind of what you’re seeing probably real time, could you give us just your latest thoughts on maybe the pace of recovery here? Do you expect things to be pretty linear or any chance of whether it’s COVID or restriction-related setbacks or anything else that could change what you’re seeing on the ground? And obviously, Chinese New Year is fantastic. But it would seem like the opening here is just going to continue. Any reason that, that would be kind of different from the reality? Or how are you seeing your bookings shape up and the patterns you’re expecting to see over the next couple of months?
Rob Goldstein : I’d begin by saying, first of all, we’re just thrilled to be open and making money and seeing demand like we’re seeing. I don’t think any of us have the aptitude or the insight to tell you what’s going to happen — they have post-change news. But I do think longer term, you have to have real strong confidence. And you see — when you get to see these numbers that we are seeing that this is a market that’s going to rebound. This market has a strong base mass, premium mass. And some of the fears be in the market about, it was liquidity like, what’s resiliency, I think those fears will be pushed to the side. What’s the trajectory and how fast it happens? I don’t think any of us have the gumption to make venture a guess.
I think it would be silly. We just feel fortunate we’re open. We’re operating. We think it keeps getting better, not worse. I don’t believe COVID is going to be — obviously, China has gone through a different trajectory than we did here in the U.S. But hopefully, that won’t be a problem. Again, I don’t want to speak anything that I can’t speak for. But if things keep going like they’re going, we’ll all be in a very happy place in 2023, especially, I think, somewhere in the second half of the year. As normal travel patterns resume, Hong Kong gets back on speed, Mainland China. I think there’s a lot of growth potential and a lot of good thoughts coming our way vis-a-vis the future. We are — again, as I said earlier, we’re not going to tell you that we don’t believe in this — we believe in this strongly very strongly.
We believe in our assets very strongly. We believe in international tourism in Macao very strongly. So we’re not going to predict when it happens, how it happens, how fast it happens. But we feel very positive about what’s going to happen in Macao in the long term, very positive. And we’re looking to investing money in there and getting back to where we were in the past in Macao. We couldn’t be more positive on the can long term.
