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15 WGM #61 2018/08 wgm8.com 平方米的零售空间，以及拥有878张赌桌和3,300台老虎机 的巨型赌场。 于2006年加入拉斯维加斯金沙集团，并负责澳门威尼 斯人开幕的战略营销总监塔什回忆说：「当时，很多人对 澳门威尼斯人的前景持怀疑态度。」 「澳门金沙于2004年开幕后，立竿见影地取得了骄人 的成绩，这出乎不少人意料之外。然而，人们仍然心存怀 疑，质疑阿德尔森能否再接再厉，为澳门威尼斯人取得成 功。我还记得，在2007年的某个会议上，我们讨论如何管 理拥有3,000间客房的巨型酒店，这可是惊人的客房数目。 事实上，澳门威尼斯人在营运初期曾被迫关闭1,500间客 房。这是由于管家部员工短缺，而现有员工却经验不足， 故无法及时打理那么多客房。」 「会议上，我们亦讨论了如何每天接待30,000至 40,000位访客。这问题的关键，在于我们究竟如何能接载 那么多人到澳门威尼斯人？」 「当时，规模大如澳门威尼斯人的赌场酒店可谓前所 未有，而我们也不清楚其将带来什么样的影响，但事实证 明澳门威尼斯人的确改变了这座城市。时至今日，每两位 到访澳门的游客中，就有一位会到访澳门威尼斯人。」 耗资27亿美元兴建的威尼斯人，在开幕后短短四年间 已赚回了建造成本，但阿德尔森却没有停下来。汇聚多家 综合度假村以吸引更多游客，是美国拉斯维加斯的发展模 式。阿德尔森以此为鉴，向澳门政府提出了打造路氹金光 大道的构思，邀请其他营运商在贯穿路氹南北并伸延至氹 “There was also talk of 30,000 to 40,000 customers visiting each day, which begged the question – ‘How can that many people be bused in?’ “No casino had ever been built on that scale and we had no idea what was going to hit us, but in the end the Venetian changed Macau. To this day one out of every two people that visits Macau, visits the Venetian.” The Venetian cost US$2.7 billion to build and earned its cost back within four years, but Adelson’s ambition didn’t stop there. Adopting the Las Vegas model of attracting more tourists by clustering resorts together, he proposed to Macau’s government the idea of a Cotai Strip of integrated resorts – inviting other operators to build similar casino and entertainment properties along a narrow corridor running from south to north through Cotai and turning east towards Taipa. Among the first to be offered the opportunity to join him was Adelson’s good friend Steve Wynn, whose company Wynn Resorts was already constructing a casino- resort, Wynn Macau, on the Macau Peninsula. Wynn, who later opened Wynn Palace in Cotai in 2016, initially knocked back that offer, stating at the time that a Cotai Strip was “the most stupid idea he had ever heard in his whole life,” according to Adelson himself. Only one other budding casino entrepreneur saw what 澳门银河 Galaxy Macau 2015新濠影汇完工时刻 The final touches being added to Studio City in 2015