Inside Asian Gaming

IAG AUG 2021年8月 亞博匯 26 COVER STORY A Resorts World Mobile App allows guests to pay for any gaming, entertainment or hotel offerings with their mobile device, ensuring cashless technology is available property-wide. Other features of the resort include a 5,000-capacity concert and entertainment venue, 250,000 square feet (23,225 square meters) of MICE space, a 5.5-acre pool complex with infinity-edge pool, a 27,000-square foot (2,500 square meter) spa experience plus Zouk Nightclub and Ayu Dayclub. According to Bernhard, RWLV shines a blinding light on just what the best operators in Asia can bring to the Las Vegas Strip. “Las Vegas needs more than innovation and a refreshed product, it needs new minds, and I think during this particular historical period we’re very fortunate to benefit from new minds who happen to operate in Asia,” he says. “So while it used to be that Las Vegas exported its product to places like Macau and Singapore, now it’s a healthy thing to have a little bit of the reverse process, whereby information sharing, best practice sharing and information comes from the East to Las Vegas. I think that’s huge.” Scott Sibella, the former MGM Grand President and COO who was appointed President of RWLV in May 2019, says Genting brings “international perspective and family-owned culture to Las Vegas,” having developed Asia’s first real integrated resort in 1965 (Malaysia’s “Las Vegas is very much like an amusement park in that if you don’t continue to build new roller coasters, the product gets stagnant and folks stop coming.” – Bo Bernhard 「拉斯維加斯就像一個遊樂園，如果你不持續 建造新的過山車，不隨時更新換代產品，人們 就不會來。」 ——Bo Bernhard