Macau’s Slot Machine Casinos

With Macau having brought in more than $6 billion last year in gaming revenue, it is no wonder that more and more slot machine casinos are trying to get a piece of this rapidly expanding pie. Experts know that Macau is growing much faster than Las Vegas is, and although Vegas still brings in close to $10 billion a year, Macau is hot on their heels. They say that Macau’s slot machine and gambling casinos could bring in more than $8 billion next year.

So who is trying for this pie? Many Vegas based slot machine casinos are opening another location in Macau as well. Are they hedging their bets? Not really, because no one thinks that Macau will ever eliminate the need for Las Vegas, but if there is another fast growing market in the same area of business that you are in – you would be an idiot not to take advantage of that.

They have seven new slot machine casinos that opened last year. The Wynn Macau opened with more than 1,300 slot machines and 500 gaming tables. The Sands Macau brought in more than 1,254 slot machines and 740 gaming tables. The Venetian Macau will have more than 4,000 slot machines and 850 table games.

The Cotai Strip will have more than 2,900 table games and 16,000 slot machines. They also expect non gaming revenue such as hotels and retail to increase as they don’t have as many options for that sort of income as Las Vegas currently does. By adding those things to their slot machine and gambling revenues, they could be looking at more than $13 billion in revenue.


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