Caesars Entertainment CEO Mark Frissora says the company’s Las Vegas Strip properties have seen a decline in the number of Asian gamblers in the weeks since 58 people were killed when a gunman opened fire at festivalgoers.
Speaking to a group of investors in New York, Mr Frissora said that business is slowly returning to normal following the 1 October tragedy but Asian players could take longer.
“The biggest, I think, from an impact standpoint, that we’ve seen is Asian play has actually been less because people in Asia are very respectful of the deaths that occurred and they believe there should be a period of mourning [so] they wait for that period of mourning before they’ll return,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Mr Frissora as saying.
“I don’t want to say that I know exactly what Asians think is a period of mourning that’s appropriate, but I’ve heard that it’s sometimes a period of three months, four months, in that range.”
Asked about general visitor traffic, Mr Frissora added, “It’s fair to say we are cautiously optimistic about the rebound. We think that occupancy rates across the Strip took a little bit of a hit the first day, the first week into the second week, but then every week it seems to change and improve.”
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