SHELLY ADELSON'S MISSTEP IN MACAO

摘要

The Venetian casino complex in Macao is plentyrngrand. Singing gondoliers ply their boats along a canal that meanders through a mall featuring luxury boutiques, an 1,800-seat theater for the Cirque du Soldi, and dozens of bars and restaurants.rnProblem is, most of those attractions stand half empty even as the tables and slot machines are crowded with players drinking, smoking, and shoving chips across the felt. The owner of the casino, Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon G. Adelson, has made the Venetian in Las Vegas a money machine by filling its hotel rooms with vacationers, conventioneers, and of course, gamblers. In Macao, it's mostly gamblers.