World Gaming Magazine

12 WGM #63 2018/10 wgm8.com 封面故事 COVER STORY 贵 宾厅向来是澳门博彩业的支柱。虽然以旅游主导 的大众市场被视为澳门未来发展的主要方向，但 在过去12至18个月期间，贵宾厅博彩已迎来另一 个高峰，更有新的博彩中介人在各大综合度假村开设全新 的贵宾厅。 简而言之，贵宾即进行高额投注的赌客。他们有的获 娱乐场邀请，但多数通过博彩中介人提供豪华旅程和住宿 安排来到澳门，并由后者暂时提供投注资金。 V IP gambling has long been the backbone of Macau’s casino industry. And although the tourism-driven mass market is seen as the city’s future, VIP has been enjoying another boom over the past 12 to 18 months with a number of new junket rooms having opened in Macau’s biggest resorts. For the uninitiated, VIP refers to high stakes players who come to Macau either as an invited guest of individual casinos or, more commonly, via specialist junket operators who arrange luxury travel and accommodation as well as temporarily bankrolling their play. While these junket operators take a significant cut of the action from the players they bring in, at their peak in 2013 Macau casinos still made around US$30 billion from VIP play of the total US$45 million in total revenue for the year. That’s very big business! History now tells us that those numbers were only fleeting – plummeting by more than 50% in the two years that followed due to a crackdown by the Chinese government on capital outflow channels But the VIP industry is on the move again – a fact highlighted by the spate of new VIP Clubs that have been springing up in Macau over the past year or so. While the opening of new VIP rooms is usually a relatively rare occurrence, a number of Macau’s leading junket operators have been noticeably busy in recent times – none more so than Tak Chun Group which has already opened two new VIP Clubs in 2018, expanded another and is on the brink of opening a fourth. Tak Chun opened its first new room of the year at Cotai’s Plaza Macao in April, followed one month later by the news that it had taken over junket operations at Macau 位于澳门巴黎人的德晋贵宾会 Tak Chun Groupʼs VIP Club at The Parisian Macao