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Vegas is famous for its luxury lifestyles and high end gambling. Luxurious is what the casinos in Las Vegas are all about, they offer us all kinds of different games to try our luck at. Is there too many of them though… Are they slowly consuming all of Vegas, or have they already?

On Monday a new casino called the Sand’s Bethlehem Casino opened up bringing the count of casinos in Las Vegas to 122. This means that there are about 200,000 slot machines in Las Vegas alone. This seems to be quite a high number of machines. About 36 million people visit Las Vegas from all around the world every year. Although contrary to popular belief they don’t all go to gamble. People also go to this wondrous place to get married, about 300 Las Vegas weddings are conducted every day.

That’s a lot of gambling and a lot of weddings, the casinos do contribute a large amount of recreational activities. So in truth 120 casinos might be just the right amount. Vegas has many of the most famous and popular casinos in the world like the Bellagio and Caesars Palace. These bring in a huge amount of revenue for Las Vegas. People are packing in the Florida Villas idea and moving to the gambling nation.

Now that British Airways have set up a direct flight to Las Vegas from Heathrow I am sure that the visiting rates will be increasing as well. Should we be trying to stop the building of more casinos in Las Vegas? No we don’t, it is the capital of gambling, of course they are going to be building more and more casinos. At some point in the future there won’t be any need for trhe construction on more casinos because there will be enough throughout Vegas. We can get all we need from the casinos that currently exist in sunny Vegas at the moment, but there may be need for some new one’s soon. Las Vegas holidays will be growing from year to year and so will the amount we spend in the casino.