Delta Corp, India’s leading casino operator, has inked a deal to run a casino in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu.
On Tuesday, Nepalese media outlet MyRepublica announced that Everest Hospitality and Hotel Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Nepalese conglomerate MS Group, had signed a memorandum of understanding with Delta subsidiary Deltin Group to operate a casino in the Marriott Hotel that Everest is building in the Naxal region of Kathmandu.
The 235-room five-star Marriott Kathmandu is scheduled to open its doors in June 2018, joining the MS Group’s Fairfield by Marriott-branded hotel in Kathmandu’s Thamel district, which opened this summer.
Nepal’s casino industry appears to be on the upswing, having just celebrated the long-delayed soft-opening of Silver Heritage Group’s new Tiger Palace Resort Bhairahawa. Only the hotel is currently open for business, but the casino and the other amenities are scheduled to launch on November 30.