Articles tagged “macau”

Business Travel

Starwood Is Helping Create Macau's Emerging Meetings Market

Macau is an example of an emerging meetings destination that will see U.S. market growth on the backs of its U.S. hotel partners like Sheraton and St. Regis, but the challenges are significant due to the region's reputation as the "Las Vegas of the East."
Skift Originals

The world's most tourism-dependent countries

Fascinating list, if only to understand how vital the links -- literally -- to the outside world are for these countries, for their own economic growth.
Tourism

Macau crosses Vegas as world's biggest gaming hub

Las Vegas' problems during last recession was symptomatic of the larger malaise in U.S., and it is still recovering, while Macau, while going through a bit of a slowdown, still has the huge Chinese pipeline coming.