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Rod Smith Gaming Guru - Page 46Las Vegas Resorts Note Dip in Room Bookings24 March 2003
LAS VEGAS -- Advance room bookings for Las Vegas resorts showed signs of weakening Friday, two days after the outbreak of war with Iraq.
Casino operators, analysts and reservation companies attributed the slackening demand to hostilities in the Middle East, the sluggish economy and faltering consumer confidence. ... (read more)
Inside Gaming: Icahn Shifts Power in Tower10 February 2003
Carl Icahn was in town last week, not to bet on the Super Bowl, as he told it, but to shake up management at the Stratosphere.
Now there seems to be a whole new marketing staff in place, "young studs" from Station Casinos mostly.
Now that Icahn has shaken things up, marketing director Chuck Davison is gone, and word is that more changes are in the works. ... (read more)
Inside Gaming: Casino Chatter Centers on Mergers28 January 2003
Mergers and acquisitions. Don't ask us where it's coming from, but that seems to be the talk of the town, at least among casino executives. And they all suddenly seem to be talking the same language.
"Gaming is a mature industry." Whatever that may mean, it seems to have happened just yesterday. ... (read more)
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