With their casino revenue potential restrictions, Singapore’s integrated resorts booked $1.3 billion in revenue beyond the casino floor last year from hotels, shopping, conventions and attractions, much of it at higher margins than gaming. That’s a quarter of Singapore IRs’ total revenue, five times better than Macau’s percentage of non-gaming revenue, but less than half of the ratio for Las Vegas.
Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes and author of Hong Kong On Air
