Las Vegas Turns Red and Celebrates Chinese New Year
26th January, 2009
Many across the world are beginning today, wearing red and giving children little red packets of money.
Chinese New Year is today, the year of the Ox, and celebrations will continue for 15 days until the full moon.
Chinese New Year for Las Vegas is as big as traditional New Years and The Super Bowl. With it being such a long celebrations Casinos across the globe can expect profits to rise.
Rob Oseland Chief Operation Officer at Encore, the new casino from Wynn Resorts Ltd, said, “there is great demand for the Chinese new Year period.”
Both the Encore and another Wynn casino intend to hold galas as part of the celebrations, starting with a birthday party for the 67 year old owner Steven Wynn, and climaxing with Super Bowl this coming weekend.
Bruce Anderson, Encore’s director of horticulture design, said, “Our Asian customers are very important and they appreciate the touches, but we wanted to show off the existing design. Having a huge dragon up there would just be gilding the lily.”
Other resorts across Las Vegas are also decorated to make the event, especially the high-end properties including the likes of the Las Vegas Sands, Venetian and the MGM Mirage’s Bellagio.
By Rommon
