"Indonesia has become an important market considering the number of tourists coming to Singapore come from Indonesia," said President and CEO of Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd, Thomas Arasi, after the inauguration of the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, Tuesday (04/27/2010).
He hopes will be able to capture the businessman who is also a MICE tourists from Indonesia through a newly built resort in an area of 15.5 hectares at Marina Bay in Singapore. Proximity location and easy access from Indonesia to Singapore, according to him, became its own advantages to develop MICE business in the industry.
Meanwhile, in a different occasion Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp, Sheldon G Adelson said that Indonesia and India in addition to being the target of MICE services also become the target package wedding venue.
Business prospects of this wedding hall, according to him, quite good considering the preview opening of the hotel, casino, along with the existing exhibition space booking three weddings in one week. "Indian Weddings usually take a long time until one week, and they invite many relatives and friends, so the wedding hall was a large need," says Adelson.
He estimated there would be 32 000 visitors in the meeting rooms accommodating from one week after the opening preview.
Integrated resorts are built Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd has hotel facilities with a total of 2560 rooms will be opened gradually in this 2010. With exhibition and convention space that can accommodate 45 000 delegates, 2,000 showrooms, and 250 meeting rooms.
Southeast Asia's largest ballroom that can accommodate 6600 people for a party and 11,000 people to an auditorium-style lectures.
According to Adelson, the concept of a wedding reception hall is integrated with hotels and entertainment facilities ranging from theaters, museums, casinos, shopping becomes easy for the user. "No need to borrow a car or other transportation because the meeting was on a roof," he said.
As reported by Kompas (Wednesday, 28.4.2010), Marina Bay and Sentosa Resorts World which operates the Genting-Singapore's first casino, last February, intends to make Singapore into the gambling capital in Southeast Asia.
The two casinos will generate revenue of 3.5 billion U.S. dollars next year, or more than half the annual revenues of Las Vegas that at 6 billion U.S. dollars, said Fischer. "Lust gambling in Asia is very high," he argued. In Macau, an average of once a wager for 40 U.S. dollars, while in Las Vegas is only 10 dollars
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