{"id":2702,"date":"2008-03-16T11:16:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T17:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/destination-macau-report-the-venetian-macau\/"},"modified":"2008-03-16T11:16:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T17:16:18","slug":"destination-macau-report-the-venetian-macau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/destination-macau-report-the-venetian-macau\/","title":{"rendered":"Destination Macau Report &#8211; The Venetian Macau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=1RN7WxA0uX8<\/p>\n<p>Asia&#8217;s largest integrated resort, The Venetian Macao, is\u00c2\u00a0 officially open &#8211; ushering in a new chapter in the history of Macau.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong star Alan Tam and American legend Diana Ross were among the stars at the opening ceremony &#8211; held in the 15,000-seat Venetian Arena.<\/p>\n<p>World-renowned Cirque du Soleil also created a special performance for the event &#8212; in the run-up to having a permanent show here &#8211; in the 1800-seat Venetian Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>With a price tag of 2.4 billion US dollars, the Italian Renaissance themed Venetian Macau is now the world&#8217;s second largest building, with convention and exhibition halls, entertainment venues, indoor canals, shops, restaurants and a hotel with 3,000 all-suite guest rooms. Not to mention the 550,000 square-foot ground level casino floor, which itself is now the largest in the world, with 870 tables and over 3,400 slot machines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The star-studded evening of entertainment &#8212; is just the beginning of what Macau can expect in the years to come. Thanks largely to people like Sheldon Adelson, Macau is at a turning point &#8212; setting new standards for luxury, shopping and entertainment &#8212; and redefining the future of tourism for this region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=1RN7WxA0uX8 Asia&#8217;s largest integrated resort, The Venetian Macao, is\u00c2\u00a0 officially open &#8211; ushering in a new chapter in the history of Macau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-HA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}