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A casino hotel is an establishment consisting of a
casino A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling. Casinos are often built near or combined with hotels, resorts, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships, and other tourist attractions. Some casinos are also known for hosting live enterta ...
with temporary lodging provided in an on-premises
hotel A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a re ...
. Customers receive the benefits of both
gambling Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted. Gambling thus requires three ele ...
facilities and lodging. Since the casino and hotel are located on the same premises, a gambler's necessities can be provided for in one location. The casino may offer common forms of gambling including
slot machine A slot machine (American English), fruit machine (British English) or poker machine (Australian English and New Zealand English) is a gambling machine that creates a game of chance for its customers. Slot machines are also known pejoratively a ...
s,
table game Table game may refer to: * Table game (casino), games of chance that are played against the casino and operated by one or more live dealers * Tables game, a class of board game that includes backgammon * Tabletop game, games that are normally playe ...
s, and
sports betting Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome. The frequency of sports bet upon varies by culture, with the vast majority of bets being placed on association football, American football, basket ...
. The hotel, nearby or directly connected to the casino, provides lodging and may include other popular services such as food and beverages, valet parking, a
swimming pool A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable Human swimming, swimming or other leisure activities. Pools can be built into the ground (in-ground pools) or built ...
,
health club A health club (also known as a fitness club, fitness center, health spa, and commonly referred to as a gym) is a place that houses exercise equipment for the purpose of physical exercise. In recent years, the number of fitness and health s ...
, and on-site entertainment. Many casino hotels in popular destinations such as the
Las Vegas Strip The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip, as it is known, is about long, and is immediately south of the Las Vegas cit ...
and
Atlantic City, New Jersey Atlantic City, often known by its initials A.C., is a coastal resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The city is known for its casinos, boardwalk, and beaches. In 2020, the city had a population of 38,497.
, operate as resort hotels with additional services such as upscale lodgings, ballrooms, and large conference facilities. Such establishments recruit their gambling accommodations with workers to manage not only all the game processes but also more common entertainment elements for which they need choreographers, conjurers, and streamers. Casino hotels can be significant employers in an area; in 2009 in Atlantic City, Local 54 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union represented 22,000 casino hotel workers.Abadinsky, Howard (2009)
''Organized Crime''
Cengage Learning. p. 281.


See also

* List of casino hotels *


References


Further reading


"Service climate and customer satisfaction in a casino hotel: An exploratory case study"
''International Journal of Hospitality Management''.
"Analysis of Las Vegas Strip casino hotel capacity: an inventory model for optimization"
''Tourism Management''.
"Yield management in Las Vegas casino hotels"
'' Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly''.

* ttp://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/09596110910948323 "Intrinsic and extrinsic factors impacting casino hotel chefs' job satisfaction" ''International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management''.
"Analysis of Return on Hotel Investment: A Comparison of Commercial Hotel Companies and Casino Hotel Companies"
''Journal of Hospitality & Tourism ''.
"Performance Measurement Through Cash Flow Ratios and Traditional Ratios: A Comparison of Commercial and Casino Hotel Companies"
''The Journal of Hospitality Financial Management''.
"Job Stress Among Casino Hotel Chefs in a Top-Tier Tourism City"
''Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management''.
"Ben Siegel: Father of Las Vegas and the Modern Casino-Hotel"
Wiley.
"Investing in the Casino Hotel"
''Cornell University School of Hotel Administration''.
"Smoke gets in your eyes - Examining air quality in casino-hotels"
''Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly''.
"The Contribution of the Casino Hotel Industry to New Jersey’s Economy"
Rutgers.
"A Primer on the Casino Hotel"
''Cornell University School of Hotel Administration''.
"The Modern Las Vegas Casino-Hotel: The Paradigmatic New Means of Consumption"
''Management''. * Penner, Richard H.; Adams, Lawrence; Rutes, Walter (2013)
''Hotel Design, Planning and Development''
Routledge. pp. 361- . * Kilby, Jim; Fox, Jim; Lucas, Anthony F. (2006)
''Casino Operations Management''
John Wiley & Sons. pp. 49- . * Atlantic City Casino Hotel Association (1982)
''A Report on the Economic Impact of Atlantic City Casino Hotel Operations for 1981''
The Association. 6 pages. {{Hotel Casinos Hotel types