TOUR20 Casino.boating (midterm 3)

Different Types of Recreation

Gambling and Boating

Gaming Entertainment

•  Casino industry.

•  Land-based-cards rooms, charitable games,   lottery operated games& wagering on grey hound & horse races

•  River boats - popular on cruise ships, barges that are moored in water & do not cruise called dockside casinos.

Gambling and Gaming

Gambling

thrill of “action” and a chance of making money

Gaming

Games of risk

Gambling vs Gaming

As a form of entertainment and a social activity.

Amenities of the gaming operation

Diverse activities during a stay.

Social Gamblers

HISTORY OF GAMING ENTERTAINMENT

Senet or Senat is a board game from predynastic and ancient egypt.The oldest hieroglyph representing a Senet game dates to around 3100 BC. The senet word mean,"game of passing."

Egypt

Go ("weiqi" in Chinese, "baduk" in Korean) is an ancient Board game for two players

that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago. The game is noted for being rich in strategy despite its relatively simple rules.

Chinese

Chariot racing, also known as equestrian game, was one of the most popular game in ancient Greek, Roman & Byzantine Sports. Chariot racing was often dangerous to both driver and horse as they frequently suffered serious injury and even death, but generated strong spectator enthusiasm.

Cockfight is a blood sport between two roosters (cocks), held in a ring called a cockpit.

  Dice Throwing using dice such as these were

carried all across the Roman Empire by traveling, marching legionnaires during the 1st to 3rd centuries AD.

Romans

King Henry VIII, a gamble himself. Outlawed gambling when he discovered that his soldiers spent more time in gambling than proving their battle skills.

England and Europe

Venice, Italy Baden Baden

A public gambling was legalize for the first time in 1626

  Germany  Opened in 1748 and still opened today

Italy and Germany

Las Vegas

“American Dream” From early 1940’s-1976 Las Vegas has a

monopoly on the casino business, not the gaming entertainment.

No hotel rooms No entertainment & other amenities

Americas

Often associated with organized crime Encourages individuals to spend/lose money

intended for their families Basic concept – a person who received a

prize or money when no comparable work or effort was made to earn the reward.

Leads to increase in crime in general Tremendous amount of money without

producing anything Can become addiction

Moral concerns of legal gambling

Brings economic benefits to the community

Generates revenues through taxes and tourism

Justification of casinos

Key Players in the IndustryMANDALAY RESORT

HARRAHS HOTEL AND CASINO

MGM MIRAGE

PARK PLACE HOTEL

Exciting Gaming Entertainment THE MIRAGE HOTEL AND CASINO

THE MIRAGE ATRIUM

THE STATION CASINO KANSAS CITY

NEW YORK NEW YORK HOTEL AND CASINO

WILD WILD WEST HOTEL & CASINO

THE MASQUERADE VILLAGE

THE GRAND CASINO TUNICA

THE GRAND CASINO TUNICA

THE LUXOR LAS VEGAS HOTEL & CASINO

FREMONT STREET EXPERIENCE

FREMONT STREET EXPERIENCE

THE WORLDS FAMOUS TRIP THE CASINO

CASINO GAMESTABLE GAMES and SLOT MACHINESTable Games:BACCARAT

BLACKJACK

CRAPS

ROULETTE

SLOT MACHINE

Boating and Marina

A marina (coast or shore) is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats.

Boating and Marina

Marinas may be located along the banks of rivers connecting to lakes or seas and may be inland. They are also located on coastal harbors (natural or man made) or coastal lagoons, either as stand alone facilities or within a port complex.

A marina may have refueling, washing and repair facilities, ship chandeliers, stores and restaurants. A marina may include ground facilities such as parking lots for vehicles and boat trailers. Slipways (or boat ramps) transfer a trailered boat into the water. A marina may have a boat hoist well (a traveling crane) operated by service personnel. A marina may provide in- or out-of-water boat storage.

Some marinas offer boat storage including rack storage and dry storage yards. Dry storage or dry stacking (as opposed to on-water storage) is mainly found in the USA and Europe.

Drystack boat storage stores boats vertically in rack systems up to four boats high. It extends the life of the boat by keeping the hull dry, provides storage at seasonal marinas, and allows for storage of smaller boats in marinas lacking wet slip capacity. Drystack is particularly useful out of season, and important where winter temperatures are cold enough for the water to freeze.

Boats are moored on buoys, on fixed or floating walkways tied to an anchoring piling by a roller or ring mechanism (floating docks, pontoons). Buoys are cheaper to rent but less convenient than being able to walk from land to boat. Harbor shuttles (water taxis), may transfer people between the shore and boats moored on buoys.