Singapore regulators push non-gaming revenue

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, 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.