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...Kong facility has its advantages: In Tomorrowland, the wait-time to get onto the park's single thrill ride, Space Mountain, hovered at around five minutes - a kid's fantasy, even if that's a company's nightmare. Kyle Smith, a casino performer in the nearby gambling mecca of Macau, waits for his friends near the ride's entrance. "I've been away from the States, so having this familiar place is nice," says the 24-year-old, visiting for the third time in less than a year. He recommends the park, even though he believes it could...
...CASINOS 19,078 Residents per sq km in Macau, which has passed Monaco as the world's most crowded gambling enclave $36,357 Per capita GDP of Macau, making it Asia's richest place...
...track's shrinking revenue is bad news for Macau's greyhound population: Some 300 to 400 of the racing dogs are destroyed each year, a Canidrome official told the South China Morning Post last August. (The Canidrome declined interview requests.) A local law confines greyhound ownership to the Canidrome, making it impossible for anyone else to adopt the dogs. Some are injured or too old to race - greyhounds have a racing life of only two to three years - but others have simply been deemed too expensive for the struggling enterprise to maintain. "They're making a huge mistake," says Cynthia...
...Last year, gambling revenue in Macau jumped 46% to $10.3 billion, putting the Chinese city on track to surpass the entire state of Nevada in gaming income. That income has soared since the city ended a casino monopoly in 2002, but the gambling boom has not exactly reinvigorated interest in dog racing. Last year, the Canidrome earned just $12 million; the Venetian Macau, by comparison, raked in $418 million in its first quarter since opening last August. Unlike the more serious gamblers who hit the city's baccarat tables, the few hundred spectators at the Canidrome on most nights...
...decline of dog racing is hardly unique to Macau. Faced with competition from casinos, betting revenue from greyhound racing in the U.S. slumped by 45% during the 1990s, according to the American Gaming Association. "It's a sport that's on the decline," says Branigan. There's competition from casinos and other sports, she says, "but a great deal also has to do with the public's perception: people equate it to dogfighting or cockfighting." Though many U.S. organizations place former race dogs in adoptive homes, Branigan says at least 5,000 are killed every year...