Inside Asian Gaming

IAG MAR 2020年3月 亞博匯 50 Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson. 拉斯維加斯金沙集團主席兼行政總裁蕭登·艾德森。 JAPAN That name was Sands, and so began a 21-year-run of profitability, putting aside one infamous hiccup during 2008’s global financial crisis, which has seen owner Sheldon Adelson become the 17th richest American, according to the 2019 Forbes Rich List. It’s also seen Las Vegas Sands Corporation grow into the world’s largest IR company, with a market cap of US$50 billion. Famous for what some call bluff and bluster and others call vision and genius, Adelson is the man behind the most famous piece of land in the global gaming industry – Cotai. At barely two square kilometers in area, this is ground zero for Macau’s IR industry – and therefore the world’s IR industry – and has for the past decade seen gross gaming revenue (GGR) in the tens of billions of US dollars each year. Sands controls three properties along the Cotai Strip: The Venetian Macao, Parisian Macao and Sands Cotai Central (soon to be re- launched as The Londoner). On top of all that, Sands was one of two successful Famous for what some call bluff and bluster and others call vision and genius, Adelson is the man behind the most famous piece of land in the global gaming industry – Cotai. 有些人認為艾德森以虛張聲勢而聞名，亦有一些 人視他為擁有遠見的天才，不過不可否認的是， 艾德森是聞名環球博彩業的路氹城之重要推手。