Die G2E Asia war zu ihrem fünfjährigen Jubiläum Gastgeber für die internationale Glücksspielbranche, die nun weiterem Wachstum entgegensieht. Novomatic registrierte ebenfalls ein positives Klima und erhielt auf die beeindruckende Produktpräsentation begeisterte Reaktionen. Nach nur fünf Jahren hat sich die G2E Asia als einer der vier großen Events im internationalen Messekalender etabliert (neben der ICE in London, der G2E in Las Vegas und der SAGSE in Buenos Aires).

Die G2E Asia 2011 findet von 8.-9. Juni in Macao in der traditionellen Location im Venetian Macao statt. Austrian Gaming Industries GmbH (AGI) wird an diesem wichtigsten asiatischen Branchenevent mit einer spannenden Palette marktspezifischer und internationaler Glücksspielinnovationen teilnehmen, die sowohl die Betreiber als auch die Gäste der Region begeistern und damit die Präsenz der Marke Novomatic in diesem wichtigen Wachstumsmarkt weiter stärken wird.

Macau – Sheldon G. Adelson, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp., will be honored with the G2E Asia Visionary Award during Global Gaming Expo Asia (G2E Asia) 2011. The G2E Asia Visionary Award recognizes Adelson’s contributions to the gaming industry and key role in setting the stage for the next phase of gaming in Macau with the Sands Macao, the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the ongoing development of the Cotai Strip.

Las Vegas (AP) -- Casino company Las Vegas Sands Corp. declined to comment Monday on a Hong Kong newspaper's report that Sands might sell the first foreign-owned casino in the Chinese island of Macau under a leaseback arrangement worth USD 1.3 billion.

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Las Vegas Sands Corp., the casino operator controlled by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, denied a Hong Kong newspaper report that it may sell its gambling license in Macau. “We worked very hard to earn the concession and we have no intention of selling the license,” Las Vegas Sands spokesman Ron Reese said in a phone interview today.

Macau's landscape shows the far reach of human ambition - land reclamations have joined up the two islands of Coloane and Taipa to make a gambling and shopping sprawl called the Cotai Strip. Flashy casinos and garish hotels tower over what was once a sleepy trading town at the mouth of south China's Pearl River Delta. But now some of those towers stand half-finished, the sound of building work has gone. Only dust and concrete remain.

Macau, China - The laid-off worker from Hunan province hung back from the baccarat table as his wife placed bets. He sipped water and explained how he justified traveling to this former Portuguese colony on China's southern coast -- the only place in the country where gambling is legal -- and blowing USD 450 in savings there. "We are not rich, so we took a train to Guangzhou first, then we took a bus to Zhuhai," bordering Macau, said Zhang, 50, who would give only one name.

Around 25.1 million visitors entered Macau in the first ten months of the year, which was a rise of 14.5 % on the same period of 2007 when 21.9 million people visited the territory, MacauNews reported Friday. The director of the Macau Tourism Office, João Manuel Costa Antunes said Thursday that in 2008 a total of around 30 million tourists were expected to visit Macau, or 3 million more than in 2007.

Macau struggling casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp. will lay off as many as 11,000 workers after a cash crunch forced the company to halt construction on multibillion dollar projects in the Chinese gambling city, a top executive said this week. About 2,000 of the construction workers are from Macau, and the remainder are from Hong Kong, mainland China and other countries, said Stephen Weaver, Sands’ president for Asia.

Steve Wynn is a man who not only makes the preposterous possible, but also profitable. The casino mogul and billionaire turned Las Vegas from a strip of gambling dens into a global attraction, helping to foster the Vegas ideal that it is a place consenting adults can see and do just about anything imaginable (plus, of course, gamble 24-hours a day).

Hong Kong - For the past five decades, a Macau casino concession has been licensed to print money. In the past few months, printing money has become less profitable and less satisfying. This week's opening of Cirque du Soleil's new Zaia show at the Venetian Macao is a reminder that Macau has gone from a sure thing to a risky high-wire act.

A former adviser to the Singapore government said yesterday that the island city is losing foreign investment to countries with greater growth such as China, adding that Macau could work with the region to increase its attractiveness. In an interview with the Straits Times management guru Dr Kenichi Ohmae said Singapore had done well in the past in attracting foreign investment...