However, local small business owners are warning that it is becoming increasingly hard to recruit mainland Chinese workers.
labour shortage
A new report concludes that the slow approval process for foreign hires and post-pandemic competition for labour from other Asian resorts is harming the local gaming sector.
The lack of workers is leaving many hotels struggling as tourists return on a wave of post-pandemic travel, Bloomberg says.
Potential employees must be double-jabbed and can only work in certain households; pilot scheme may open the door to foreign teachers in future.