Resort hotel
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A resort hotel is a
These hotels as destinations may be characterized by distinctive architecture, upscale lodgings, ballrooms, large conference facilities, restaurants, and recreation activities such as golf or skiing. They may be located in a variety of settings from major cities to remote locations.
History
Since the 1800s, the traditional concept full-service conference and resort hotels have been based upon a venue which is typically remote and has a
A mega-resort is a type of destination which is of an exceptionally large size, sometimes featuring large-scale attractions (
Two projects in Las Vegas in 1969 and 1973
Many mega-resorts have a large
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The Las Vegas Strip has dozens of luxury resorts
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The Venetian Macau
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North West Province, South Africa
References
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- ^ a b Grant Ian Thrall, Business Geography and New Real Estate Market Analysis, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England (2002).
- Bally's) had just raised the bar in casino/hotel design. Whereas previous casinos had featured modest, low-slung motelwings or mid-rise hotel extensions, these two structures opened with over 2000 rooms and suites located in mammoth hotel towers. These two projects boasted virtually every feature of what is today canonical casino resort construction: a single complex combining casino, dining, and entertainment facilities with a massive hotel.
- high-rise hotel towers, parking garages, convention space, gaming, entertainment, and shopping for the first time. These structurally integrated designs supplanted the patchwork of older Strip casinos, which had grown by adding a showroom here or a hotel tower there. And the International pioneered the tri-form, y-shaped design that has become a Strip trademark. The freshly minted mega-resorts of the 1990s, from The Mirage to Paris, all used Stern's basic ideas of casino design.
- MGM Grand set a new standard in defining the mega-resort. The monolithic building, larger than in size than the Empire State Building, had over 300 miles of draperies, 2,300 television sets, and enough heating and cooling capacity to serve 8,000 homes.