Citing concerns over New Orleans' economy, Mayor Ray Nagin has proposed creating a downtown casino district.
Nagin emphasized the dire straits of the city's economy. He included his idea for expanding gambling in a letter send to Gov. Kathleen Blanco. He also asked for the authority to create a citywide charter public school district.
Nagin said ideas like this are needed to get the cash-strapped city back on its feet.
Each night, the brightest spotlight in the world shines straight into the Nevada sky from the top of the black pyramid of the Luxor.With the Egyptian-themed hotel-casino´s location near the southern end of the Strip, the ray acts as a great landmark. But in the spring, the light also attracts hundreds of thousands of moths, an insect cloud reminiscent of three of the 10 Biblical plagues that befell the ancient Nile River country.
Houses in Vegas and elsewhere using new technology to weed out winners and losers, prevent fraud.As if the house didn't already have the upper hand, casinos are betting on new technology that lets them read the players better than any savvy gambler.The casinos say the new systems can't be used against gamblers and might even benefit them, but some players and regulators aren't so sure.
Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has a vision of Asia's Las Vegas on Cotai, reclaimed land joining Macau's Coloane and Taipa islands.
Adelson's US$2 billion Venetian Macau Casino Resort will anchor this new version of the Las Vegas Strip, with 20 more resorts lining the wide boulevard. Macau gambling kingpin Stanley Ho's City of Dreams complex will provide a sleek, ultramodern counterpoint to Adelson's classical Venetian.
As a bonus, Vegas rival Steve Wynn will be stuck in Macau's downtown, sandwiched between a pair of the Ho family's new hotels and Adelson's Sands casino, the first to bring Las Vegas glitz to Macau.
Spa Finder, Inc., the global spa resource, announced its 2005 annual Readers' Choice Crystal Awards at the Turning Point Spa Industry Conference, a gathering of global spa leaders held at the Sentosa Resort & Spa in Singapore.
Spa Finder, Inc. CEO and Chairman Pete Ellis presented awards to the world's best spas, by continent, as determined by visitors to Spafinder.com and readers of Luxury SpaFinder Magazine, which together attract a media audience of millions of spa consumers annually.
Spa Finder Readers' Choice Awards were also announced for readers' favorite spas by country or region. According to Ellis, the winning spas reflect the tastes of discerning spa goers who increasingly travel the world in search of the finest genuine-spa experiences for relaxation and wellness.
Mississippi's Gulf Coast riverboats -- once the symbol of a revitalized economy -- became the most visible signs of the region's destruction after Hurricane Katrina tossed the floating casinos, shattered and lifeless, ashore like so many toy boats.
It wasn't until detailed video footage of the storm's wake was aired Tuesday that business reporters realized this wasn't going to be a typical "lost earnings per share" story.
The wreckage of Hurricane Katrina is already being called the worst natural disaster in U.S. history, with witnesses comparing the decimated landscape of floating bodies and trash-strewn shores to the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and war-torn Iraq.
The Greater Cleveland Partnership today released a study that estimates that legalizing casino gambling, and building 11 casinos around the state, would add between $3.8 billion and $4 billion in new revenue to the states economic output.
But the Partnership stopped well short of committing the business organization to any effort to bring gambling to the state.
"We don't know enough yet to draw any conclusions about whether or not the Partnership will support an effort to legalize gambling", said Partnership president Joe Roman. "I don't have a personal opinion; I don't have a professional opinion".
Las Vegas Sands Corp.'s casino in Macau raised commissions paid to local gambling-junket operators to a record as it forges ahead in the lucrative high-roller market, the South China Morning Post reported.
The increase may unsettle rival casino operators including gambling tycoon Stanley Ho, who has said such a move would mean "war," the Hong Kong-based, English-language newspaper said, citing unidentified industry people.
According to the Washington, D.C.-based American Gaming Association, about 51 million people--a group equivalent to roughly one quarter of the U.S. population over 21 and legally. Worldwide, although no hard figures exist, the number could be estimated to be double that.
From the glittering lights of the Las Vegas strip to the illegal pai gow parlors of New York's Chinatown, there is a wide range of casinos from which these potential 100 million people can choose.
Gamblers have always been preoccupied with getting an edge when playing casino games as if some strategy to tip the scale in favor of the players really existed.
With the exception of expert card counting in blackjack, expert strategy when playing select video poker games, dice control technique at craps and expert play in live poker rooms, the mathematical advantage built in to all other games guarantees the casino will always have the edge over players.
