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Casino introduction

1. Las Vegas is a city famous for its gambling industry. There are four major casinos in the world: Macau, Monaco, Atlantic and Las Vegas. These four cities are famous for their huge tourism, shopping and holiday industries centered on gambling. They are all world-famous holiday resorts.

2. Macao is an international free port, one of the regions with the highest population density in the world, one of the four largest gambling cities in the world and the largest gambling city in Asia. Its famous light industry, tourism, hotels and casinos have made Macao prosperous and become one of the most developed and affluent regions in the world. In 2006, there were 1 1 casinos and 353 gambling tables in Macau, and the number of employees was insufficient 10000. But it has opened up more than half of Macao's fiscal revenue. In the past 65,438+065,438+0 months, the tax collected by the SAR government from the gaming industry alone reached 86,543,800 million patacas. As the leader of Macau 1 1 casinos, Golf Entertainment City is more like a printing machine, with a monthly (March) operating income of nearly 3 billion patacas, and an average of 30,000 customers entering and leaving Portuguese casinos every day, ranking first among all casinos in the world in terms of both number of customers and income.

3. Compared with Las Vegas, one of the four largest gambling cities in the world, Macau is dominated by gambling tables, accounting for 95% of the turnover, while Las Vegas is dominated by slot machines, accounting for 70% of the turnover; There are 247 casinos in * * *(La * * *), which is more than 20 times that of Macau, but the gambling tax paid each year is less than 80% of that of Macau 1 1 casinos! The reason is that the tax rate borne by Macao's gaming industry to the society is much higher than that of La Cheng, almost more than six times that of La Cheng!

4. In 2007, Macau's gambling revenue reached 45.06 billion yuan (about 5.565438 billion US dollars), a substantial increase of 65.438+07.8% compared with the same period in 2006; Lacheng Cotai Avenue was 43.49 billion yuan (about 5.44 billion US dollars), an increase of 8.4% over the same period in 2006. Macau's gaming revenue has exceeded Las Vegas' 654.38+0.57 billion yuan. Become the largest casino in the world. In terms of gambling revenue and the number of customers, Macau ranks first among the four largest gambling cities in the world.

4. Monaco: Monaco, a very small country, is a very small place. 1856, Prince Charles III of Monaco opened the first casino in the northern corner of the old city in order to solve the financial crisis. To commemorate the prince, the region was named Monte Carlo, and Monaco gradually became one of the richest countries in Europe. Grand Casino, built in 1878, was designed by GAMIER, the same designer of Paris Opera House. It embodies the classic of Belleepoque, France, and has collected luxury goods for centuries. Architecture and decoration itself are more appreciated than casinos. Palace-style buildings are antique and magnificent, with huge columns, ebony dado, red carpet, stained glass and finely carved beams.