Ameristar Casinos, Inc. engages in the development, ownership, and operation of casinos and related hotel, food and beverage, entertainment, and other facilities in the United States. It offers various table games, including blackjack, craps and roulette, and live poker, as well as slot machines, and multi-coin nickel and penny denomination games. The company also provides various dining, lodging, and entertainment options.
The Oberoi Group owns and manages thirty hotels and five luxury cruisers across six countries under the ‘Oberoi’ & ‘Trident’ brands. The activities of the Group include airline catering, management of restaurants and airport bars, travel and tour services, car rental, project management and corporate air charters. Oberoi Hotels & Resorts are synonymous the world over for providing the right blend of service, luxury and quiet efficiency. Internationally recognised for all-round excellence and unparalleled levels of service, Oberoi Hotels & Resorts have been the recipient of innumerable awards and accolades. The Group’s new resorts have created a reputation for the highest levels of luxury among resort hotels around the world.
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) is the world’s most global hotel company and the largest by number of rooms. The Group has more than 3,500 owned, leased, managed and franchised hotels and approximately 535,000 guest rooms across nearly 100 countries and territories.
Las Vegas Sands, Inc. is a hotel and gaming company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Company holdings include The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, located on the Las Vegas Strip, and Venetian Macao Limited, a developer of multiple casino hotel resort properties in The People’s Republic of China’s Special Administrative Region of Macao.
Caesars Entertainment, Inc. engages in the ownership, operation, and development of gaming facilities in the United States. The company operates casinos and hotels under the Caesars, Bally’s, Paris, Flamingo, Grand, Hilton, and Conrad brand names. It operates in four geographic regions: the western, eastern, mid-south, and international. In the western region, it owns and operates seven casino hotels in the state of Nevada, including Caesars Palace, Paris Las Vegas, Bally’s Las Vegas, and Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas; Caesars Tahoe and the Reno Hilton in northern Nevada; and the Flamingo Laughlin in far southern Nevada. In the eastern region, the company owns and operates three casino resorts along the Atlantic City Boardwalk, including the Claridge Casino and the Wild Wild West Casino.blockquote>
Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. (Harrah’s) is a casino entertainment provider, which through a wholly owned subsidiary, Harrah’s Operating Company, Inc., owns or manages 28 casinos in the United States. Its casino-entertainment facilities operate primarily under the Harrah’s, Rio, Showboat, Horseshoe and Harveys brand names, and include 11 land-based casinos, 11 riverboat or dockside casinos, four casinos on Indian reservations, a combination greyhound-racing facility and casino, and a combination thoroughbred racetrack and casino. The Company’s facilities also include hotel and convention space, restaurants and non-gaming entertainment facilities.
MGM MIRAGE is the world’s largest gaming company. The company’s 26 partially or wholly-owned properties include Las Vegas’ MGM Grand, Luxor, Bellagio, The Mirage, and New York-New York. MGM MIRAGE also owns casinos in five other Nevada cities, as well as in Michigan and Mississippi. In addition, the company operates the Borgata casino in Atlantic City through a joint venture with Boyd Gaming. In 2005, MGM MIRAGE acquired rival Mandalay Resort Group for $7.9 billion, shooting the firm to the top of the gaming world. However, if rival Harrah’s completes its proposed merger with Caesars, that company would surpass MGM MIRAGE. Founder Kirk Kerkorian owns about 57% of MGM MIRAGE.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is a hotel and leisure company. The Company conducts its hotel and leisure business both directly and through its subsidiaries. Starwood’s brand names include St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, Sheraton, Westin, W and Four Points by Sheraton. Through these brands, the Company is well represented in most major markets around the world.
Marriott International is the world’s leading hotelier by revenue with about 2,600 operated or franchised properties in more than 65 countries. (It trails both InterContinental Hotels and Cendant in number of rooms.) Marriott’s hotels include full-service brands such as Renaissance Hotels and its flagship Marriott Hotels & Resorts, as well as select-service and extended-stay brands Courtyard, and Fairfield Inn.
More than 250 hotels on every continent, often in the most lovely locations on the planet there is Hilton International, the hotel division of this British Group that sells dreams.Apart from this operation, which made its international reputation, the Hilton Group is very active in the gambling sector, trading under the name Ladbroke Betting and Gaming, in Britain, Ireland, Belgium and the Middle East.
