Jun
7
Zaia | The Cirque du Soleil show at the Cotai Strip®’s Venetian Macao
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Cirque du Soleil and Las Vegas Sands finally made an announcement providing some details for their much awaited Cirque show on LVS’s Cotai Strip®. The show will be called Zaia and is scheduled to start this spring in Zaia’s special 1,800 seat theatre at the Venetian Macao.
This is pretty exciting news for Macao. If you’ve been to Vegas, you know its hard to go anywhere in Las Vegas without seeing a Cirque advertisement, since it seems to be a Cirque show at almost every major resort on the Strip. The shows are pretty spectacular (and expensive), and Zaia should be a big step in making Macao the entertainment capital of Asia. Read more
May
6
Welcome to the Venetian Macao
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Here is a collection of videos from the Venetian Macao. If you’ve ever been to the Venetian in Macao or Las Vegas, you can just skip this. If you havent, and have about six minutes to spare, you may want to quickly look through the videos I’ve assembled. Most are about 30 seconds in length, with the exception being the second video, which is a little longer but well worth it. Read more
Mar
23
Celine hits the Cotai Strip®
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It doesnt get any bigger than Celine Dion. She’s been entertaining Vegas at Caesars for years, and now she has finally hit Las Vegas Sands’ Cotai Strip at the one and only Venetian Macao. The afterparty was almost as good as the actual event, as you can see from this Destination Macau video.
Mar
1
Police live at the Venetian Macao on the Cotai Strip®
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My favorite Police song, “So Lonely”
Dec
21
Police to play Venetian Macao Arena
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Stuff like this is great for The Venetian, Cotai Strip® tourism, Macau, and most importantly, its tourists. They may be balding and grey, but they still rock…
“The Venetian Macau Resort Hotel and Live Nation Global Touring have confirmed that The Police will perform at The Venetian Arena in Macao, on 7th February 2008.
From the opening notes of Message In A Bottle through a set list which includes the mega-hits: Roxanne, Synchronicity, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, Every Breath You Take, When The World Is Running Down, Spirits Read more
Dec
1
Cotai Waterjets to launch
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This could reduce the amount of time it takes the Venetian to ferry people from Hong Kong to its Cotai Strip® properties by about fifteen minutes. The new ferry terminal in Taipa will help avoid all the traffic you have to deal with when you arrrive in the Macau Peninsula ferry terminal.
MacauHub writes:
Sea transport company Cotai Waterjets, linked to the company which manages the Venetian Macau tourist resort, is due Friday to launch routes between Hong Kong and the Pac-On Read more
Oct
19
Mega Macao launches this weekend
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HONG KONG, Oct. 10 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ — Kenfair International
Limited, a Hong Kong-based trade fair organiser, announced last October
that it will launch “Mega Macao” — its first-ever trade fair in Macao in
October 2007 at The Cotai Strip(TM) Convention and Exhibition Center at The
Venetian(R) Macao, the city’s brand new and largest exhibition venue. The
second edition of the show is scheduled for April 2008 to coincide with the Read more
Oct
9
Cirque de Soleil on Macao’s Cotai Strip®
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For those of you who have never seen a Cirque show, I have one recommendation - see one! They’re pretty incredible. Anyway, here’s an interesting article about how the Canadian company Cirque de Soleil imposing its solcial responsibility agenda in Macao:
“We are dreamers and we try to do our part to Read more
Oct
3
Cotai Strip disappoints
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Who ever thought 50% revenue growth would be disappointing!
The AP writes:
“Analyst Celeste Mellet Brown said early figures showed September gambling revenue grew 55 percent from Read more
Sep
27
How is the Venetian Macao doing?
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Here is Las Vegas Sands’ 30 day stock chart. The Cotai Strip®’s Venetian Macao has been open for 1 month. I think the chart answers my question. Read more
Sep
14
Cotai Strip®’s Venetian welcomes one millionth visitor - already!
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Looks like the Cotai Strip® is off to a fast start…
“The world’s largest casino resort, the Venetian Macao, welcomed its one millionth visitor Friday just 17 days after opening, its operators said.
The gargantuan casino, convention and retail centre awarded the fortunate customer two nights hotel accommodation, Read more
Sep
9
Sheldon’s Venetian Macao opening quotes
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But what would a bear do on the Cotai Strip®?
Mr Adelson didnt let us down with his Venetian Macao grand opening, and I knew he wouldnt let us down in the quote department. Here are some doozies from The Times Online. Read more