Filed under: Launches, Conventions and conferences, Competitive strategy, China, Las Vegas Sands (LVS)

Last year, more money was gambled in Macao, China’s version of Las Vegas, than anywhere else in the world. The big players in the casino world are rapidly expanding to serve what they see as a burgeoning market. This week Las Vegas Sands (NYSE:LVS) rolled out the biggest table stake yet, opening the mammoth Venetian Macao.

Mammoth may be an understatement for this complex, which Las Vegas Sands claims is the second largest single-phase construction in the world, behind only a flower warehouse in Holland. Check out these numbers:

• 3,000 rooms
• 1.2 million square feet of convention space
• 550,000 square ft of gaming space, with 3,400 slots, 870 gaming tables
• 15,000 seat theater soon to feature the Cirque du Soleil.
• 10,000-person staff.

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