The likes of Las Vegas, Macau, and Atlantic City may be the big icons, but one of the world's biggest businesses, gaming, pulls 'em in all over the globe, from Tunica to Panama City and Moscow to Mmabatho. What's up where these days?
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Formerly a colony of Portugal until it was handed back to China in 1999, this city spread against a backdrop of green hills over several islands, with a population of just over 705,000, is a Chinese special administrative on the Pearl River, just 60 kilometres from Hong Kong (making it an easy day trip, by the way). One of world’s more densely populated areas, Macau is best known and is known as Asia´s biggest gambling mecca. Besides the casinos which dominate the skyline (top), it´s is also…
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"Gov. Chris Christie...announced plans last month to revive this city’s flagging economy by having the state essentially take over municipal operations in the casino district."
But the pieces still ends with a question mark:
"...as gambling continues to expand in neighboring states — Pennsylvania and Delaware both recently added table games to their slot-machine parlors — Atlantic City casino operators and local and state officials have not reached a consensus on how to change the city’s appeal.
'What’s fascinating to me is this town’s always been able to sell itself, to sell something beyond its true worth,' Nelson Johnson [author of Boardwalk Empire, on which an upcoming HBO series is based] said. 'I’ve seen it all my life, and maybe we’ll see it again.'"
Hawaii may add gambling to its natural beauty
Mark Niesse, Associated Press
HONOLULU (AP) -- Hawaii has always been known for its sun, sand and surf. It may soon add another attraction: slots.
Hawaii is one of the last two states with no legalized gambling, but lawmakers facing billion-dollar budget deficits and hunting for ways increase revenue are thinking about allowing casinos in tourist-filled Waikiki or on Native Hawaiian lands.
Proponents say casinos would draw much-needed new money and jobs into the long-troubled, tourism-dependent economy.
Tourists from the mainland would skip Las Vegas to sun on pristine beaches and take a turn at the roulette tables. Coveted high-rollers from Asia could avoid the long trans-Pacific flight, shortening their trip to the slots while also checking out the hula dancing.
Entire piece: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GAMBLING_IN_PARADISE?SITE...
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