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...“People will spend where they need to spend,” he said from outside the newly opened Londoner resort — a labyrinthine edifice in the style of the Palace of Westminster containing several hotels and a 351,000...
...casino”....
...Conscious that Whitehall can be less than vibrant at night, the owners are desperate to encourage the idea of The OWO as a destination, in the way the rejuvenated Battersea Power Station has become....
...from the wider region into its central business districts....
...Think water-skiing along Lake Como, stunt-driving classes and casino visits. Some will be critical, arguing that it’s a move away from travel as a means of connecting with a destination....
...So I went on the Tube to Green Park, which is the nearest station to the palace. And even at the station it was really busy and on the pathways that lead up to it....
...Saturday Wake up in the hottest new green hotel in town at Inhabit Queen’s Gardens in Bayswater, just a few minutes’ walk from Paddington station....
...The royals have used it rather as an extension of the palace since it opened in 1910....
...The Fertittas figured it would be a fun side hustle to their hugely successful local casino business....
...“There is no line of business that needs difference of perspective more than ours does,” she says. “There’s never one perfect way of doing something. We need more women. We need more ethnic minorities....
...For lunch, visit the top floor of the Marunouchi Building next to Tokyo Station for a view that encompasses Mount Fuji, 100km away as the crow flies, and the Imperial Palace in the foreground....
...Even as casino traffic has plummeted by at least a quarter this year in Las Vegas, investors could not be more excited about the gambling business....
...A landowner from Nangarhar tells me the protection money he pays to the Taliban not to destroy his irrigation systems is just another cost of doing business. It’s conflict that kills farming....
...Decorating is the opposite of an efficient business – and writing is no business whatsoever; it’s philanthropy....
...Mr Fertitta’s pursuit of Caesars comes as Mark Frissora, Caesars’ chief executive, has been investing in renovating its hotel rooms, revitalising its loyalty programme and expanding its hospitality business...
...He was struck by his son’s explanation of how casinos generate cash — from hospitality and entertainment as well as gaming — and by his appraisal: “What a cool gig.”...
...unveiled plans for a $500m joint venture casino hotel on the Philippine resort island of Boracay....
...“It’s ultimately about the ethicality of: ‘I’m doing business with you. Am I giving you a fair deal or am I really trying to rip your eyes out?’...
...Her sentences are as prim and poised as courtiers, occasionally granting you access to her mind palace, and occasionally denying it. Interruption seems futile. She awes you gently....
...Born in Lausanne on June 15 1929 to a Swiss father and English mother, Genillard was part of a family who had built one of the first palace hotels in the Alps and then been wiped out financially by the first...
...“I like doing business in the Bahamas. It was very easy. We didn’t have very high wages.” Another benefit was personal....
...Trump knows exactly what he is doing when he attacks journalists as well as politicians....
...which stands in for an Athens station....
...There is a long tradition behind what I am doing. Go back 60 years, and the Petit Socco was busy with casinos and brothels, in a city that was legendary for spying and smuggling....
...“When you have this huge hotel with a casino on the back, the place has no identity,” she says, pausing....
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