When a float depicting a portion of the USD 1.8 billion Palazzo rolls down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, Calif., this morning to kick off the 2008 Tournament of Roses Parade, it will promote an open casino. After a few days delay getting through the Clark County permitting process, Las Vegas Sands Corp. opened the casino portion of the Palazzo on Sunday evening, just in time for the busy New Year's Eve holiday.
Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat entschieden, dass der Schweizer Casinoverband bei dem Entscheid. ob die von der Loterie Romande betriebene "Tactilo" - Automaten auch künftig verboten sind, als Partei zugelassen. Das Verfahren wird nach Ansicht von Experten noch längere Zeit in Anspruch nehmen und mit einem Entscheid wird bestenfalls in diesem Jahr gerechnet. Die Eidg. Spielbankenkommision (ESBK) ht vor einem Jahr entschieden, dass der Betrieb von Tactilo- oder Tchlot-Automaten in Gaststätten und an Kiosks zu verbieten sind.
Hotel Casino Aurora del Sol will be inaugurated during the upcoming days in the council Santo Domingo Este, with an investment of USD 20 million, and will offer 350 direct employments, plus 1,500 indirect jobs. This touristic project will be the first of its kind in the Eastern zone and will have a hotel with 46 rooms and four executive suites. Besides, it will have three conference halls available with room for 50 to 300 people and two restaurants.
Macau’s casino industry will likely see record gross revenues of USD 10 billion in 2007, an increase of 46.5 percent over last year, The Macao Post Daily reported this week. The casinos’ gross receipts were expected to reach USD 1.03 billion in December. The casinos’ gross receipts were expected to reach USD 1.03 billion in December, the daily quoted a senior official of Macao’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau as saying.
Secretary of Tourism of Guanajuato, Sergio Rodríguez Herrera, considered that the decision to install a casino to operate in a permanent way in the city of León, will be a decision of the whole society and not just a sector, because "casinos are not a bad thing”, although they should operate under certain rules and should be regulated by the authorities. In a press conference offered in León, in which it was released the cash audit of the state related to tourism...
A bill that proposed opening casinos on Taiwan's outlying islands with the consent of the majority of the island's residents failed to clear the legislative floor yesterday. The bill was an amendment to an act regarding the development of the outlying islands. It did not curry enough votes to pass, as 84 of the 149 legislators who were present voted against it, while only 57 voted in favor and eight abstained.
Tropicana Entertainment plans to sell its Casino Aztar in Evansville, as part of the fallout from the denial of its Atlantic City license last week. In addition, the company is selling the Tropicana in Atlantic City, and has already signed a contract to sell a casino it owns in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Word of the sales came as the company made a crucial interest payment Monday on its credit agreement, and said it was working on reaching an agreement with its lenders that would prevent it from filing for bankruptcy.
he group SuperClubs has announced the opening in 2008 of its first complex in Panama. It will be a resort of its brand “Breezes”, located in Playa Blanca, in Bijao, province of Coclé. The facility will have 300 all-inclusive apartments as well as a spa, a casino and several international and local restaurants. “We have aimed to expand our properties in Latin America for ten years. In the next 18 months we will be duplicating the presence of the SuperClubs Resorts in the whole region”.
An opening ceremony started the construction process Calama’s casino, which will be the most important venue in Norte Grande, in Chile. A series of features addressed to satisfy the needs of the business, hotel, events, entertainment, tourism as well as to improve the quality of life of the community, is the aim of Latin Gaming, the operating company.
New research suggests that getting a job in the casino industry may not be a bad idea. Gaming surveillance jobs are expected to jump 34-percent in the next eight years. The list of 30-fastest growing occupations is out and if the government's list is right, odds are the Las Vegas job market is a sure bet. Welcome to the surveillance society. You can't go many places in casinos, or other gaming areas, without your every move caught on tape by a security camera.
Boston (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick, leading off a casino gambling hearing that lured Las Vegas chief executives to Beacon Hill, testified Tuesday that lawmakers shouldn't moralize against casino gambling. The Democratic governor pushed his three-casino legislation as a way to create new revenues and jobs at a time when Massachusetts needs both. He said Massachusetts residents currently spend USD 1 billion annually at Connecticut's two casinos.
At least a half-dozen potential buyers have contacted state casino regulators about purchasing the Tropicana Casino and Resort, and a sale could take place within weeks, the head of the state Casino Control Commission said last week. Linda Kassekert appeared at a news conference at the Tropicana with former state Supreme Court Justice Gary Stein, the interim trustee who’s overseeing the casino until a buyer can be found, and Tropicana President Mark Giannantonio, who will stay on to run its day-to-day operations until the sale.
