Cruise ships, casino resorts on collision course

Casino ships sailing to nowhere have been niche players for decades, but now international cruises lines are giving Asian leisure travelers new options with gaming just as Macau is eyeing that same burgeoning market.

Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes, editor at large for Inside Asian Gaming and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.