{"id":8441,"date":"2012-02-07T12:35:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T20:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8441"},"modified":"2018-03-23T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T18:12:11","slug":"singapore-surges-to-all-time-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/singapore-surges-to-all-time-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore surges to all-time highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4109\" title=\"Singapore_MB_Sands_5_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Singapore_MB_Sands_5_-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Singapore_MB_Sands_5_-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Singapore_MB_Sands_5_-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Singapore_MB_Sands_5_.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Thanks to <strong>Marina Bay Sands<\/strong> (<em>left<\/em>) and <strong>Resorts World Sentosa<\/strong>, the city-state of <strong>Singapore<\/strong> posted record levels of tourism (13 million souls, a 13% increase) last year. While overall tourism-related revenues leapt 17%, entertainment spending &#8212; which of course includes gambling &#8212; was $4.4 billion, for an eye-popping 37% increase. In their eagerness to cash in, however, <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> and <strong>Genting Berhad<\/strong> have gotten a little careless. Both have been fined for waiving the $80 admission fee that Singaporean citizens are legally required to pay. Sands got slapped with a $204,000 fine while Genting will have to write Singapore a $104K check to cover its bad behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Marina Bay Sands (left) and Resorts World Sentosa, the city-state of Singapore posted record levels of tourism (13 million souls, a 13% increase) last year. While overall tourism-related revenues leapt 17%, entertainment spending &#8212; which of course includes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/singapore-surges-to-all-time-highs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,14,120,22,25,12,108,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21394,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441\/revisions\/21394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}