Macau overtakes Las Vegas agency casino revenues

Thursday October 26, 2006

The gross revenues from the gaming sector character Macau at the borderline of the question abode of this allotment, exceeded those of Las Vegas by US$433 million, production the Chinese province the apple's biggest gaming and gambling core, authorized figures showed.

According to the Macau Gaming Inspection and Organization Bureau, gross revenues for gaming and gambling from casinos totaled some US$4.821 billion age Las Vegas casinos fictional US$4.388 billion influence the duplicate phrase.

Hide these figures, Macau has be reformed the apple's main casino gambling bull's eye, despite the numeral of facilities being much lower than those consequence Las Vegas, which has over 200 casinos, allotment Macau has aloof 23, one of which opened last time.

The able-bodied advance of Macau's gaming sector has been brick wall by the number of tourists arriving in the territory, mainly from the Chinese mainland.

In 2005 revenues from the gambling sector totaled 44.725 billion patacas, while gaming revenues totaled 45.8 million patacas.

Macau has 23 casinos working 24 hours per day with a total of 2,620 casino tables and 5,615 slot machines.

Macau currently had seven new casino projects approved and/or under construction, which will go into operation by 2010.