marți, 30 iulie 2013
Bellagio Las Vegas hotel
Bellagio is ultimate Las Vegas hotel experience. Make your luxury hotel reservations at the home of the famous dancing fountains, award-winning casino, fine art gallery, magnificent pools, and luxury shopping opportunities."
Executive Chef, Ben Jenkins, at Michael Mina Restaurant preparing a tasting menu course for one of our Villa Guests in the middle of a busy Saturday night. The dish consists of Diver Scallops, crushed fingerling potato cake simmered in olive oil, poached Kushi oyster, melted leeks and lemongrass beurre blanc.
Belaggio hotel
An impressive display by the fountains outside of the Bellagio Hotel In Las Vegas,
Las Vegas Casino Resorts
If you're looking for action, you found it. No one rolls out a red carpet like Las Vegas resorts. Open the door to a storied legend like Caesars Palace or Mandalay Bay and you'll immediately feel the electricity in the air. The rolling dice, the spinning wheel and the cheering crowds. You're sure to feel like a winner as you stride between table games and strut through the rows of slot machines.
There may be casinos elsewhere, but it's Las Vegas resorts that set the bar. Spin the wheel, roll the dice and take your pick. You can't go wrong with resort options up and down the Strip. From the towering Stratosphere at 112 stories high to the opulent Wynn, you'll quickly discover there's a casino or a casino game for everyone. The resorts of the Las Vegas Strip offer expansive casinos right on property, so when you're ready to play a hand, it's just a few steps away. Or zero steps away. At certain resorts in Las Vegas, such as The Palazzo, mobile gaming devices let you play your favorite games in the palm of your hand.
And when you're ready for a breather, a beverage or even a shopping spree, it's just around the corner. Need a resort with a Ferrari dealership on site? Check. How about one with a dolphin habitat? Double check. And the restaurants ... they're staffed by the finest, most revered chefs in the industry and serve the most incredible delicacies from across the world. And even better, they're a stone's throw from your room, your table or your barstool. Even the most seasoned blackjack player needs sustenance. And he or she doesn't have to go far to find it in the convenient, energetic and pulsating casinos of Las Vegas. Stay where you play with world-class casinos right in the heart of Las Vegas resorts.
1. Luxor
3900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas, NV
Type: Resorts & Hotels
Location: Strip
Rates start at 37$
2.Excalibur
3850 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas, NV
Rates start at 29$
3.MGM Grand
3799 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas, NV
Rates start at 59$
Casinos in the United States
There are almost 900 casinos now in the United States, with that number steadily growing as more states seek to legalize casinos. 38 states now have some form of casino gambling. Relatively small places such as Las Vegas are best known for gambling; larger cities such as Chicago are not defined by their casinos in spite of the large turnover.
The Las Vegas Valley has the largest concentration of casinos in the United States. Based on revenue, Atlantic City, New Jersey ranks second, and the Chicago region third.
Top American casino markets by revenue (2009 annual revenues):
1. Las Vegas Strip $5.550 billion
2. Atlantic City $3.943 billion
3. Chicago region $2.092 billion
4. Connecticut $1.448 billion
5. Detroit $1.36 billion
6. St. Louis $1.050 billion
7. Tunica Resorts, Mississippi $997.02 million
8. Biloxi, Miss. $833.50 million
9. Shreveport, La. $779.65 million
10. Boulder Strip (Las Vegas) $774.33 million
11. Reno, Nevada $715.23 million
12. New Orleans, La. $653.05 million
13. Downtown Las Vegas $523.82 million
14. Laughlin, Nevada $492.51 million
The Nevada Gaming Control Board divides Clark County, which is coextensive with the Las Vegas metropolitan area, into seven regions for reporting purposes.
Indian gaming has been responsible for a rise in the number of casinos outside of Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
Casino security
Given the large amounts of currency handled within a casino, both patrons and staff may be tempted to cheat and steal, in collusion or independently; most casinos have security measures to prevent this. Security cameras located throughout the casino are the most basic measure.
Modern casino security is usually divided between a physical security force and a specialized surveillance department. The physical security force usually patrols the casino and responds to calls for assistance and reports of suspicious or definite criminal activity. A specialized surveillance department operates the casino's closed circuit television system, known in the industry as the eye in the sky. Both of these specialized casino security departments work very closely with each other to ensure the safety of both guests and the casino's assets, and have been quite successful in preventing crime. Some casinos also have catwalks in the ceiling above the casino floor, which allow surveillance personnel to look directly down, through one way glass, on the activities at the tables and slot machines.
When it opened in 1989, The Mirage was the first casino to use cameras full-time on all table games.
In addition to cameras and other technological measures, casinos also enforce security through rules of conduct and behavior; for example, players at card games are required to keep the cards they are holding in their hands visible at all times.
Casino revenue based on markets
China take the lead in casino industry, this is not a surprse if we see how many reach man are there now.
According to Bloomberg, cumulated revenue of biggest casino operator companies worldwide amounted almost 55 billion US dollars as per 2011. SJM Holdings ltd. was the leading company in this field and earned 9.7 billion in 2011, followed by Las Vegas Sands Corp. (7.4 bn). The third biggest casino operator company (based on revenue) was Caesars Entertainment with revenue of 6.2 bn US dollar
Rank
|
Location
|
Casinos
|
Revenue (2009)
US$M |
Revenue (2010 Projected)
US$M |
Revenue (2011 Projected)
US$M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1
|
33
|
14,955
|
22,445
|
28,379
| |
2
|
122
|
10,247
|
9,950
|
10,300
| |
3
|
2
|
2,119
|
2,750
|
5,479
| |
4
|
189
|
3,965
|
3,909
|
3,957
| |
5
|
12
|
3,943
|
3,550
|
3,330
| |
6
|
11
|
2,697
|
2,769
|
2,847
| |
7
|
17
|
2,401
|
2,430
|
2,512
| |
8
|
76
|
2,073
|
2,055
|
2,081
| |
9
|
4
|
1,601
|
1,649
|
1,740
| |
10
|
141
|
1,212
|
1,193
|
1,209
| |
11
|
|
1,089
|
1,091
|
1,126
| |
12
|
2
|
1,102
|
1,114
|
1,203
|
Monte Carlo
The idea of opening a gambling casino in Monaco belongs to Princess Caroline,[1] a shrewd, business-minded spouse of Prince Florestan I. Revenues from the proposed venture were supposed to save the House of Grimaldi from bankruptcy. The ruling family's persistent financial problems became especially acute after the loss of tax revenue from two breakaway towns, Menton and Roquebrune, which declared independence from Monaco in 1848 and refused to pay taxes on olive oil and fruit imposed by the Grimaldis.
In 1854 Charles, Florestan's son and future Prince of Monaco, recruited a team of Frenchmen—writer Albert Aubert and businessman Napoleon Langlois—to devise a development plan and write a prospectus to attract 4 million francs needed to build a spa for the treatment of various diseases, a gambling casino modeled from the Bad Homburg casino, and English-styled villas. Granted the concession of 30 years to operate a bathing establishment and gaming tables, Aubert and Langlois opened the first casino in 1856 in Villa Bellevu. Intended to be only a temporary location, the building was a modest mansion in La Condamine.
In the late 1850s Monaco was an unlikely place for a resort to succeed. The lack of roads needed to connect Monaco to Nice and the rest of Europe, the absence of comfortable accommodations for visitors, as well as the concessionaires' failure to publicize the new resort, resulted in far fewer customers than was originally anticipated. Unable to raise the capital needed to operate the money-losing enterprise, Aubert and Langlois ceded their rights to Frossard de Lilbonne, who in turn passed it to Pierre Auguste Daval in 1857.
During this initial period the casino had been moved several times, until it finally ended up in the area called Les Spelugues (English: The Caves). Construction at this site began on 13 May 1858 to designs of the Parisian architect Gobineau de la Bretonnerie and was completed in 1863. Gobineau de la Bretonnerie also designed the neighboring Hôtel de Paris (constructed in 1862).
Although the casino began to make a profit in 1859, Daval was not up to the task. Just like his predecessors, he was incompetent and lacked the ability to bring the gambling enterprise to the scale envisioned by Princess Caroline.[4] Frustrated, she dispatched her private secretary M. Eyneaud to Germany, hoping to recruit François Blanc, a French entrepreneur and operator of the Bad Homburg casino. Blanc declined the offer. It took a lot of time and persuasion on the part of Princess Caroline to convince the Blancs to move to Monaco. Princess Caroline even appealed to Madame Blanc, whom she befriended during her first visit to Bad Homburg, with a suggestion that the Monaco's mild climate would be good for Madame Blanc's ill health.
General plan by Garnier and Dutrou, 1879
Facade on the Place du Casino after the expansion of 1878–79
Finally, in 1863 François Blanc agreed to take over the Monaco's casino business. To manage the new venture, a company—the Societe des Bains de Mer et du Cercle des Etrangers—was formed with capital of 15 million francs. Among the prominent investors were Charles-Bonaventure-François Theuret, Bishop of Monaco, and Cardinal Pecci, the future Pope Leo XIII. Blanc became the single majority stockholder in the company and received a 50-year concession, which would last until 1913. Blanc used his connections to quickly raise the required capital, and began the massive construction. On Blanc's insistence, the Spelugues area where the gambling complex was located was renamed to make it sound more attractive to casino visitors. A few suggestions were considered, and the name Monte Carlo was chosen in Prince Charles' honor.
In 1878–79 the casino building was transformed and expanded to designs of Jules Dutrou (1819–1885) and Charles Garnier, the architect who had designed the Paris opera house now known as the Palais Garnier. François Blanc knew Garnier, because Blanc had provided a loan of at least 4 million nine hundred thousand gold francs to the cash-strapped government of the French Third Republic, so that the opera house, which had been started in 1861, could be completed. It had finally opened in 1875. The alterations to the Monte Carlo Casino included the addition of a concert hall (designed by Garnier and later named the Salle Garnier), located on the side of the casino facing the sea, and the redesign and expansion of the gaming rooms and public spaces, mostly carried out by Dutrou on the side of the casino facing the Place du Casino, where the Hôtel de Paris and the Café de Paris were also located.
In 1880–81 the casino was expanded again, to the east of Dutrou's Moorish Room, by the addition of the Trente-Quarante Gaming Room, also designed by Garnier. Subsequent additions and expansions, and the remodeling of the Trente-Quarante Gaming Room into the Salle des Américains, have mostly obliterated Garnier's contributions to this part of the casino, except for some ceiling decorations.[5] In 1898–99 the Salle Garnier was remodeled by architect Henri Schmit, primarily in the stage area, so that it would be more suitable for opera and ballet performances. However, much of Garnier's original facade and the interior design of the auditorium itself remain intact.[5] Despite all of the later additions and modifications, the casino still has a distinctly Beaux Arts style.
Until recently the Monte Carlo Casino has been the primary source of income for the House of Grimaldi and the Monaco economy.
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