Jul

29

The Shoppes at Four Seasons Hotel Macao, Cotai Strip® now open

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I think this is the press release, if not, my apologies to the source AsiaTravelTips.com:

Venetian Cotai Limited has soft-opened The Shoppes at Four Seasons, a luxury shopping mall in Macau. The Shoppes opened its doors to the public on Friday, July 25, 2008 at 10 am.

The 211,000 square feet mall is located in the heart of the Cotai Strip, Asia’s Las Vegas. High end retail shops featuring more than 100 luxury brands are now open, including Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Chanel, Gucci, Cartier, Fendi, Bally, Brioni, Max Mara and Hugo Boss, to name a few. A spectrum of limited edition items which have never been shown in Asia are for sale. When the Shoppes officially opens in a month’s time, it will house one of the finest collections of more than 180 luxury brands from around the globe.

To celebrate the opening, guests who spend MOP 1,000,000 or above at The Shoppes at Four Seasons in a single day will be eligible to the “One in a Million Rewards”. The rewards include Palazzo Suite accommodation at The Venetian Macau, sumptuous abalone dinner, lavish spa treatment and much more. The promotion will run until August 27, 2008.  Read more

Jul

28

Calling all architects and designers

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This is just too unfair.  I came across this website that has really cool diagrams of skyscrapers listed by city.  Macau keeps getting compared to Las Vegas, but in some ways keeps getting the short end of the stick - as we can see here:  Read more

Jul

27

Avril Lavigne concert at Cotai Strip® CotaiArena

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Avril Lavigne is coming to the Cotai Strip® in Macao.  I didnt realize she was popular (or known) in China, but I guess we’ll find out.  The Cotai Arena can hold 15,000 people so we’ll see if she sells out. 

I copied the press release below and also imbedded two of her more popular songs.  I always got the impression that her music attracted a mostly female following, and that guys tolerated her music, for, uh, well, watch the videos and you’ll see.

New song… 

  

Old song… Read more

Jul

26

Macau Studio City delay

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If you read this blog, my DailyDoseOfVegas blog, or GlobalCasinoBoom blog, I keep repeating one phrase over, and over, and over - “global credit crisis”.  Well, the credit markets have taken another victim for the time being - Macao Studio City. 

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Jul

26

Macau 1st Half 2008 Tourism Numbers

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Macau put out its first half of 2008 visitation numbers.  The gaming revenue numbers is what always seems to make the headlines (and it should cause they’re huge numbers), but Im always more interested to see who is visiting Macao and how they’re getting there:  Read more

Jul

26

Wynn Cotai comments from investor call

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Wynn Resorts held its investor conference call this past week and Mr Wynn was asked about his plans for Cotai.  Here is a summary of what he said:   Read more

Jul

23

Interview: Pansy Ho comments on MGM Cotai

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From Bloomberg:

Pansy Ho, daughter of gaming tycoon Stanley Ho and managing director of Shun Tak Holdings Ltd., talked with Bloomberg’s Bernard Lo in Macau on July 19 about Macau government measures to curb a gambling expansion in the city, the potential impact on the second casino venture with MGM Mirage, and SJM Holdings Ltd.’s trading debut in Hong Kong last week.

Click on link on right hand side of the Bloomberg page under “Related Videos and Graphs” for her interview.  Read more

Jul

22

Wynn jobs and video games

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A couple Las Vegas things that you all might find useful:  Read more

Jul

16

Vegas vs. Macao…no comparison

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Macau is the new Vegas…not!

I came across a study put out by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitor’s Authority that analyzes why people visit Vegas, among other things.

First, let me ask you a question. What percent of people do you think visit Macao to gamble? If I had to guess, I’d say 80-85% (if anyone knows let me know).

Now, guess what percent of people visit Vegas to gamble. Read more

Jul

14

Quick look into SJM’s public IPO filing

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We’ve all read quite a bit over the past days, weeks, months and years(?) about the SJM IPO. There was some good stuff in the press, although it seems like the headlines were more about whether or not SJM can pull the IPO off, or can Winnie derail it, rather than the juicy details of the company’s actual operations. I want to know what the new competition has done to SJM, what are the company’s plans, what are its risks, etc. What has been really surprising to me is that we really have not seen this type of reporting in the press. Read more

Jul

14

You want more, you got more!

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More Macao news that is, over at my new site DailyDoseofMacao.com. I thought it would be useful if I provided some additional news items that I come across on a daily basis. This is stuff that doesnt make CotaiCasinoNews’ high standards, but is still probably newsworthy. Some of the news will be mainstream and some wont. Some will be interesting and some probably wont. It’ll basically be a compilation of whatever I come across and feel like sharing.
This is just phase I of the site. I’ll probably do a daily blog on the top stories, or some other things with this site once I get in the groove, but for the time being, it will probably be just some more news for people who cant get enough Macao. I also promise to try and make it an (almost) daily thing as I’ll be shooting for about 5 posts per week.

Let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions.

Jul

11

Crazy day for Wynn Resorts

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What a crazy and contradictory day for Wynn Resorts yesterday.

First, the day started off with rumors that Wynn Resorts was planning on raising anywhere between $500 million to $3 billion in a secondary stock offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to help finance its Wynn Cotai Development. The reports were pretty detailed, even naming the investment banks the company had lined up to help.

When I read this, I thought a few things: Read more

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