In the region of Nova Gorica, in the border between Slovenia and Italy, there will be built in the next four years something like a European Las Vegas, according to an agreement which was signed this week between the Slovenian company Hit and the American society Harrah’s Entertainment.

The complete investment is thought to be of about 750 million euros and the idea is to try and attract around six million tourists to this new entertainment complex, which would hire 90 per cent of foreign people.

A new Casino is about to open in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. More that 140 people are still working on the project that has about 7,000 square meters and is the result of a 13 million dollar investment. The complex is almost finished by now.

The casino, which is expected to open its doors in July, will be part of a complex that includes a convention center with capacity to accommodate 500 people and a three star hotel with 40 rooms and some suites.

Just as if it were a dependency of Las Vegas, in the Second Life casinos, you have the possibility to choose a table to play, as well as the partners you want to share it with and you can even order a drink if you want to.

With the intention of avoiding suspicions, the game creators, Linden Labs, have invited the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to visit the facilities of the city casinos in order to check and determine if what is done there is legal or not.

Several casino stocks rose and key indexes ended close to record highs after investor Kirk Kerkorian expressed his interest in expanding his casino holdings in Las Vegas.

Kerkorian, whose investment company –Tracinda- already owns 56.3 percent or the MGM Mirage conglomerate, talked about buying the Bellagio Hotel and Casino, as well as the MGM Mirage’s CityCentre. The CityCentre complex is being built near the Bellagio. It includes several hotels, a casino – hotel, private residences and a shopping center.

The Punto y Banca Casino in Puerto Madryn, Argentina, reopened its doors after a big remodeling of its facilities. The new casino has been updated to the maximum, and the manager has announced among the new changes a more modern architecture, new game rooms and more machines for users.

The remodeling process started two years ago and a big effort and investment has been made to set it all new.

In a gathering that joined together clients as well as owners and general public, the Casino Trilenium has inaugurated, the new and most exclusive gambling room of Molina, located in Lima, Peru, which will provide clients with “comfort and entertainment up to their expectations”, as the operators assure.
The mentioned gambling room has over 220 slot machines that take soles as well as dollars, besides the Trilenium Café, a place where visitors can enjoy a wide variety of pasta, salads and gourmet sandwiches.

The General Administration of Ports and Marine denied, due to the request of the Government Secretary, to the Caliente company, that belongs to Hank Ron, the request to operate a casino boat in the dock of the Ensenada.
Caliente had the intention of operating from the dock, and the access to it would have been through the tourist walker, although the federal authorities declined the permission.

Since Japan announced that it would change its strict gambling laws so as to attract rich Asian tourists, the most important casino operators have started to race for a place in the country’s vast market. Japan would be one of the last countries to joint the gambling boom that is taking place in the region.
“Nowadays casinos are not considered to be evil places, whereas they might have been considered so 20 years ago,” analyst Aaron Fischer explained. “Across Asia over the last few years you've been seeing legalization of casinos including in Singapore and Macau.”

Investments in the casino and gambling fields have diversified in the last few years and are no longer concentrated only in the city of Las Vegas as it used to be traditionally. This has permitted the development of new attractive destinations for players around the world, who have better and more varied services to choose from when planning their vacations.
Using Las Vegas as an inspiration, other destinies that have gambling centers as their main attraction, have emerged to attract tourists.

The cleaning people working in an old New Jersey casino were doing their job when they run into over 17,000 dollars in coins that had been waiting underneath the machines.
The Sands Casino of Atlantic City closed its doors last November in order to be transformed into a mega casino. While they were moving the machines around, those in charge of cleaning the place had the hope of finding some coin, although they didn’t expect to find 17,193.34 dollars.