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More on p13 were great but not real’ P2 More on backpage 19.05.2016 thu th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO if we market it right, it’ll be able to attract more people from all over the world, not just from China. […] Macau is unique in offering gaming, shows, entertainment and restaurants. Hong Kong has its theme parks. […] So the in- tegration will be much closer […] This changes everything. You’ll have an integration of people coming and going and it will just change the whole dynamic of the Pearl River Delta. MDT - In terms of the co- cktail and bar culture in Macau, it’s not as strong as it is in Hong Kong, but new bars are emerging in the city. How do you think Macau could learn from Hong Kong? AZ - When we talk about bars and that kind of thing, I always say it’s the people that make the place, that make the party. You need the right people and energy The non-gaming drives the to create that atmosphere, ALLAN ZEMAN gaming and it will make the and I think that’s something Q&A ENTREPRENEUR gaming stronger and stron- really important. Macau ri- ger. ght now is still quite scatte- red. You don’t have an area MDT - What do you think where high-class people Macau can learn from the [hang out]. Some of the clubs ‘The numbers in Macau recent gaming downturn? in Macau attract the “wrong AZ - I think that the recent element,” which is a remnant gaming downturn was ac- of the old days. It resembles were great but not real’ tually strong; it’ll make Ma- the old days of clubbing. […] cau stronger. In the old days, Clubbing today is much more the way businesses were in sophisticated. It’s not just a Macau… it was just too easy. DJ and loud music. Today LLAN Zeman, known as tinue. And I think it’s very It was attracting wrong ele- the millennials want a much Athe “Father of Lan Kwai important that Macau looks ments, [which is] not good more relaxed atmosphere, a Fong,” is a Hong Kong bu- at the non-gaming part be- for Macau people. I think place where they can talk and siness magnate who sits on Now you have cause that’s what really dro- now you have to go back to enjoy themselves. You know the board of Wynn in Las Ve- ve Las Vegas’s growth. Now running a business throu- that will change as well, but gas and also serves as Wynn to go back non-gaming accounts for gh providing a good service, it takes time because what Macau’s vice chairman. In to running 60 percent of the business through thinking how you you have now is a new cultu- his opinion, Macau needs to in Las Vegas. I think that is could be better than your re that has just evolved here, continuously develop its non- a business something that is very im- competitors. Before you di- but I think it has to change. gaming market, and he em- portant for Macau – we need dn’t have to think, you just phasized that the city’s recent through to break out of just the re- opened your doors and the MDT - Macau has allege- economic downturn will tea- tail, restaurant and gaming crowd would just come in. dly spent MOP6 million ch young entrepreneurs to be providing a sectors. I think we have to Now you really have to run on the Rubber Duck and “better business people.” The good service, move beyond […] with dif- your business well, which will some people are not so Times interviewed Mr Zeman ferent shows and different teach the young generation in happy with it. According yesterday on the sidelines through forms of entertainment, like Macau how to be better busi- to organizers the project of the G2E Asia Conference, Las Vegas did. […] Macau nesspeople, how to be better aims to “promote art and which concludes today. thinking how has the ability, they’ve got operators. It will improve the culture”... you could be the money, the government youth in Macau, and I think AZ - The rubber duck is Macau Daily Times - has the money, the opera- that’s much better. In the known all over the world. I This year’s G2E Asia has better than your tors certainly have the mo- long term, Macau will become think it’s not a bad thing. I put more emphasis on ney, I think this is time for stronger and stronger. think at the end of the day, the non-gaming market. competitors. companies to slowly change it just shows that Macau can Is Macau capable of being their product […] especially MDT - What impact cou- also be one of those cities that like Las Vegas where it ALLAN ZEMAN with gaming. It’s a business ld the Hong Kong-Zhuhai- appreciates culture. […] Unha- could effectively offer regulated by concessions, Macau bridge have on the ppiness of the masses [occurs both gaming and non-ga- before when China was boo- but those who have them three cities? when] they have a harder life, ming entertainment? ming with a lot of corrup- need to differentiate them- AZ - I think that will change so they think it’s too much mo- Allan Zeman - I think if tion and a lot of problems... selves from one another. dramatically. […] The cities ney being spent. But I think at Macau does not do that, it the numbers in Macau were […] I think the non-gaming will become bigger, in es- the end of the day, you need will never grow. If we just great but not real. What we things are more important sence. It has created a bond, more of this, it’ll educate peo- stick with the gaming alone, have today is a new norm than the gaming because in a family of cities under one ple and make them more appre- I think the crazy years from and I think that will con- gaming, they’re all the same. umbrella […] If we use it and ciative of culture. Staff reporter www.macaudailytimes.com.mo DIRECTOR AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF_Paulo Coutinho [email protected] A MACAU TIMES PUBLICATIONS LTD PUBLICATION MANAGING EDITOR_Paulo Barbosa [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITORS_Eric Sautedé, Leanda Lee, Severo Portela ADMINISTRATOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER + 4 Million page views Kowie Geldenhuys [email protected] DESIGN EDITOR_João Jorge Magalhães [email protected] | NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_ SECRETARY Juliana Cheang [email protected] PER MONTH Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Daniel Beitler, Emilie Tran, Grace Yu, Irene Sam, Jacky I.F. Cheong, Jenny Lao-Phillips, ADDRESS Av. da Praia Grande, 599, Edif. 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