Sands eyes $2.5bn Macau resort bet in teeth ofChina slowdown
Sands Chinais planning to invest at least $2.5bn in Macau on aParis-themed resort featuring a 160m replica Eiffel Tower, as thecompany continues its expansion in the territory’s gamingmarket despite a slowdown in the Chinese economy.
金沙中国(Sands China)计划投资至少25亿美元在澳门新建一座度假中心，将主打巴黎概念，并建一个160米高的埃菲尔铁塔复制品。尽管中国经济增长放缓，该公司仍继续在澳门博彩市场扩张。
Michael Leven, president of Las Vegas Sands,which controls the Macau subsidiary, said the 3,000-room resort – “The Parisian” – would be financed with $900m in cash and the balance in bankloans.
拉斯维加斯金沙集团(Las Vegas Sands)总裁迈克尔?利文(Michael Leven)表示，这个名为“巴黎人”(The Parisian)的度假中心将拥有3000间客房，项目资金来源包括9亿美元现金，其余为银行贷款。金沙中国是拉斯维加斯金沙集团旗下子公司。
“I have always believed this industry is supply-driven,” said Sheldon Adelson, chairman and founderof LVS and a backer of US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The company plans inNovember to begin pre-construction work on the project, its fifth in the territory, while awaitingfinal government approval.
拉斯维加斯金沙集团董事长和创始人谢尔登?安德尔森(Sheldon Adelson)表示：“我始终认为这一行是受供应驱动。”安德尔森是美国共和党总统候选人米特罗姆尼(Mitt Romney)的支持者。金沙计划在今年11月份展开该项目的前期工作，目前正等待澳门政府的最终批复。这是金沙在澳门的第五个项目。
Mr Adelson was in Macau yesterday to unveil the second phase of the Sands Cotai Central resort, its fourth, with a casino and a Sheraton hotel that will have 4,000 rooms when fully open nextyear. The 79-year-old is widely credited with creating Macau’s Cotai Strip.
安德尔森昨日在澳门宣布金沙城中心(Sands' Cotai Central)二期开幕，这是金沙在澳门的第四个项目，包括一个赌场和一座喜来登酒店，酒店将于明年完全开业，届时总共将有4000间客房。现年79岁的安德尔森被广泛认为对打造澳门路氹金光大道(Cotai Strip)有功。
Since the opening of Sands Macau in 2004 – the first foreign-owned casino – the city’s annualgaming revenue has grown, hitting $33.5bn last year, more than five times that of Las Vegas. Butsaturation has become a concern . A number of large projects are opening in the next few yearsjust as year-on-year growth in casino revenue fell to 5.5 per cent in August.
自2004年澳门金沙(Sands Macau)开业、成为首个外资赌场以来，澳门的年度博彩收入持续增长，去年达到335亿美元，是拉斯维加斯的五倍以上。但人们担心市场可能已经饱和。未来几年将有多个大型项目启动，而8月份澳门博彩业收入同比增长率已降至5.5%。
Galaxy Entertainmentis spending $2bn on the expansion of its Galaxy Macau resort in Cotai andSteve Wynn, Mr Adelson’s rival in the US, announced plans for a $4bn resort in June.
银河娱乐集团(Galaxy Entertainment)正斥资20亿美元扩建位于路氹城(Cotai)的澳门银河酒店渡假城(Galaxy Macau)，而安德尔森在美国的竞争对手史蒂夫?韦恩(Steve Wynn)于6月宣布了一项40亿美元的度假村建设计划。
Mr Adelson said he was confident the gaming industry had barely scratched the surface of Chinesedemand, and said only about 2 per cent of China’s population visited Macau, compared with 13 per cent of the US population that visited Las Vegas.
安德尔森说，他相信博彩行业远未充分挖掘中国的需求，并表示中国内地只有2%左右的人去过澳门，而美国有13%的人去过拉斯维加斯。
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