Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JAPAN AUG 2021 24 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 perspectiveand family-ownedculture toLasVegas,” having developed Asia’s first real integrated resort “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 「ラスベガスはアミューズメントパークのよう なもので、新しいジェットコースターを作り続 けなければ、商品は活気がなくなり、人々は来 なくなる」 - ボー・バーナード COVER STORY