Articles tagged “las vegas sands”

The panic's over. Las Vegas' gigantic venues will soon be back selling things like concrete and computers at full capacity. Which is why MGM's CEO and president William Hornbuckle is looking further afield for the brand's next chapter.

Leaving Las Vegas gives Las Vegas Sands more than $6 billion in capital to beef up non-gaming assets in markets like Singapore and Macau and potentially dip its toes in the uncharted gambling waters of Texas.

What Las Vegas convention travel downturn? The $6.25 billion Las Vegas Sands sale last week is more a testament to confidence in the meetings and event travel rebound than it is to the current business climate.

Las Vegas has Sheldon Adelson to thank for its lucrative convention center-casino-hotel model.

Can the show go on in Sin City while so many events and conventions can’t? Sure — if you have a few billion in the bank to tide your resorts over for a year.

Perhaps more important than who might eventually wind up buying Wynn is what a buyer would have to do with the brand's tarnished image.

New York is looking to boost tourism with casinos outside of the city, but it won’t pull the names it’s hoping for with upstate properties expected to turn too small a profit

Sands CEO says the company has no projects planned for the oversaturated U.S. market and will in turn focus on its rising stars in Macau, which bypassed Vegas to become the gaming capital of the world this year.

Sustainable tourism doesn’t have to mean a hut in the jungle; these are hotels are renovating with greener infrastructure, electing conscious business partners, and building a great reputation with concerned customers.

Even though Barcelona is a bigger tourist city, Madrid gets the nod. Lot depends on how the Euro and Spain's own economic crisis turns out, before the project finally gets off the ground.