Resorts World Las Vegas to Open as Limited-Smoking Property
Posted on: March 13, 2021, 01:01h.
Last updated on: July 5, 2021, 02:40h.
Resorts World Las Vegas is expected to open on the Strip this summer as a mainly smoke-free resort.
Scott Sibella, Resorts World’s president, said the property will be smoke free throughout the site except inside the casino, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Construction of the red-tinted property is “rapidly moving forward,” he said. The resort is about 90 percent complete.
In the fall, Sibella told KSNV-TV the 3,500-room hotel-casino will open in the summer of 2021, even if COVID-19 is still an issue.
We hope COVID is behind us,” Sibella said. “If COVID isn’t behind us, we hope it is less restricted. But we’re opening next summer either way.”
The coronavirus pandemic has driven visitor volume in Las Vegas down to 1989 levels. That is evident in the slowdown at McCarran International Airport. During the pandemic, passenger arrivals and departures at the airport just east of the Strip have been down by more than 30 million people. This is seen as problematic in an isolated desert city that relies on airline travel to bring in large numbers of tourists.
However, casino executives are hopeful that coronavirus vaccinations will spark the economy and ease travel concerns among tourists and convention attendees.
One sign of that optimism is the recent reopening of a half dozen resorts that had closed their hotel rooms in recent months because of low consumer demand. At least six resorts, including the Palazzo at the Venetian Resort, have announced hotel reopenings this year.
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As this takes place, Resorts World is continuing to fill 6,000 job vacancies. These openings attracted 85,000 applicants.
Lori Calderon, executive director of talent acquisition and community engagement, recently said on LinkedIn that the resort’s table game and dealer auditions have concluded. She said banquet interviews and auditions are taking place in the middle of this month.
The $4.3 billion Resorts World is the most expensive hotel-casino on the Strip, exceeding the $4.18 billion Cosmopolitan.
Resorts World is being built on the northwestern end of the Strip near Circus Circus Hotel and Casino and the small Slot-A-Fun Casino.
At one time, the now-demolished Stardust stood where Resorts World is going up. The Mob-connected Stardust was the centerpiece of Nicholas Pileggi’s 1995 nonfiction book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas. The book became the basis for the Las Vegas Mafia movie Casino, which Pileggi co-wrote with director Martin Scorsese. In the movie, the name of the Stardust was changed to the Tangiers for legal reasons
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Resorts World is not the first hotel-casino on the Strip to restrict smoking at least partially on the property.
The Cosmopolitan also has imposed smoking restrictions in some public areas, but not the gaming floor. The Cosmopolitan towers over the older Jockey Club on the west side of the Strip, south of the Resorts World.
Farther south, Park MGM last year became the first property on the Strip to implement a full smoking ban. The resort is located near T-Mobile Arena, home of the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights.
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Pentup demand and reopening will take care of filling their casino floor / rooms.
You smoke. They don't care if your not coming
I’m not spending money to stay anywhere that I can’t smoke. I’m a smoker! So they won’t get my money and that’s to bad I was looking forward to staying there.
2021 and still allow smoking in casinos well nevada oh never mind
BIG MISTAKE, for an Asian focused casino! The Asian smoking segment is almost 40%, more in the older, more affluent men. To open at the start of a recovery, RW must capture every tourist/convention customer possible, and keep them on the property. People travel in groups, and smokers usually have veto rights on where the group is going. Look at the RevPAR of the Cosmo and Park MGM, both bottom tier casino's not be modeled. I am not a smoker, but this is a very bad business idea.
I also like how Resorts World will be a much greater Chinese tourist destination than what Red Dragon could have been from the Desert Inn. Not to mention- the insignificant version of the Red Dragon, which was so unpopular, it went out of business and closed. But Resorts World will certainly be great. Although contrary to presumptions from watching Rush Hour 2, not everybody will be a winner. Not that anyone should even presume that, since it's not even called the Red Dragon. But hopefully Chinese tourists who remember that part of the movie and still dream of it, don't think this will be it, just because of its Chinese national style design. That's what I like about new hotels and casinos in Las Vegas: You never know what the rate of popularity it will have in the first few months. When will all hotel rooms be full? Honestly, the scale of the design is so great, that at first I thought that there would be not just 2 curved portions of the tower, but 3! So I thought that the length of the hotel was going to be 50% greater than actually proposed. To this day, I visualize it that big. I even edited an image of the design. Hopefully after Resorts World justifies its costs in construction, and profits a billion dollars per year, such a third portion could be built. And profit could always be used to increase profit one more time and in just 3 or so years.
Hopefully Resorts World outcompetes the Wynn Hotel. I'm not surprised Resorts World will open before the Drew/Fountainbleau.
Awesume! A cleaner environment with less smoke. I can't wait to be in a less smokey place to enjoy some games and food!
Smoke free will be the new culture. Why allow others to inhale toxins from selfish customers?!!!
Smoking should be banned outright in the hotels and casinos. That is if the employers are truly concerned about the employees health.
Excelente, no fumar, la semana pasada estuve en Las Vegas y vi su precioso edificio, suerte y estaremos con ustedes, Bendicisones
I really would like to know when I can reserve a room. I am greatly looking forward to staying at your hotel. We visit Las Vegas frequently. Please advise me the soonest i can reserve a room. My birthday is coming and would love to celebrate it at your hotel
Looking forward to your opening!!!
Former MY home place STARDUST.. We 'll see how is EXCITING ??? Casino ??
Looks like a great place!