Las Vegas Sands Corp. last month announced the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Asia’s first fully integrated resort and the anchor property of the company’s Cotai Strip development, will open on August 28, 2007.

At 10.5 million square feet, the Venetian Macao will be the second largest building in the world and the largest in Asia. It will feature 3,000 all-suite rooms, 1.2 million square feet of meeting, convention and exhibition space, an 1,800-seat Cirque du Soleil theater, world-class entertainment in a 15,000-seat arena, and one million square feet of retail space, which will be home to 350 stores and many of the world’s most renowned brands.

The launch of the Venetian Macao also marks the opening of the first property on the Cotai Strip in Macau. The Cotai Strip is a master planned development of hotel and resort properties being constructed by Las Vegas Sands Corp. and intended to recreate the success and excitement of the Las Vegas Strip. Upon completion, the Cotai Strip will feature 20,000 hotel rooms, more than 3 million square feet of retail space, and more than 2.5 million square feet of meeting and convention facilities, including hundreds of individual meeting rooms.

While LVS will construct and own each of the properties on the Cotai Strip, they will be operated by some of the most prestigious names in the hotel industry, including Four Seasons, Sheraton, St. Regis, Shangri-La, Traders, Hilton, Conrad, Fairmont, Raffles, Swiss Hotel, Intercontinental, Holiday Inn and Cosmopolitan. All of the properties will be connected via enclosed pedestrian walkways. The Cotai Strip also will be home to six Las Vegas-style showrooms and a large arena used for a wide variety of sports and entertainment content—in all the Cotai Strip will be home to more than 25,000 seats of live entertainment.

By Casino Connection Staff

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