You will be the first in the world to experience it before the aircraft goes into commercial service. įor those of you who are travelling with us on this delivery flight to Singapore tomorrow, I hope you'll be pleased with the new product. The 787-10 is indeed a magnificent piece of engineering, and truly a work of art. It is an honour for us to be the world's first airline to take delivery of this amazing aircraft. TEN stands for Thrust, Efficiency, and New technology for this ground breaking aeroplane. The 787-10 is powered by the Trent 1000 TEN. (audience applauding) - Built in Charleston, and with engines that are built in Singapore. Just look at how beautiful she looks in the Singapore Airlines livery. (audience applauding) The delivery of our newest member of the 787 our 787-10. (dramatic music) - Good evening Boeing South Carolina. "We need help to develop it.- Welcome aboard. A 2011 study suggested attractions such as a water park, a family entertainment center, and a museum such as Ripley's Believe It or Not. Webster Franklin of the Tunica Convention & Visitors Bureau preaches the need for Tunica to diversify tourism offerings. Of the remaining eight casinos, three have been seized by lenders and are for sale - Resorts Tunica Casino, Bally's Casino Tunica and The Fitz Casino & Hotel. The number of visits from Mississippi patrons is down almost as steeply.Ĭaesars has been trying to sell Harrah's for three years, and Barber said the company could split up the property, allowing a buyer to purchase only the casino and hotel tower on the Mississippi River side of the levee. The number of casino visitors has fallen by two thirds since 2007. Southland won $142 million from gamblers last year, more than an average Tunica casino. In recent years, competition has gotten even closer to home, with Southland Park Gaming and Racing in West Memphis, Arkansas, luring many traditional Tunica patrons. But those and many other states have casinos now. In the early days of Mississippi gambling, there was little competition, with patrons trekking from Oklahoma, Missouri and elsewhere. That market, traditionally smaller than Tunica, is likely to see revenues surpass its northern neighbor with Harrah's closure. That's in contrast to Mississippi's Gulf Coast casino market, where declines have been shallower and casinos have actually been winning more from gamblers in recent months. "Tunica, as a market, I don't know if we've seen the bottom," said Niklas Rytterstrom, the general manager of the Gold Strike, owned by MGM Resorts International, one of the market's strongest players. Leaders of other casinos aren't sure if the decline will stop before more gambling halls close.
Gambling tax revenue collected by Tunica County has already fallen from $47.3 million in 2006 to $28.3 million in 2013. Its closing will cut advertising revenue for the Tunica Convention & Visitors Bureau and local government will have less revenue to take care of the extensive infrastructure it built - including an airport, a fire department, and a public recreation center - when revenues surged with gambling. Harrah's has the largest convention facility in the market. "We feel bad about the ultimate outcome, but it's a good business decision for the long-term future of the company."īut Harrah's folding will make it harder for the Tunica community. "We feel good about where we are," Barber said. Caesars is investing $10 million in the renovation of the Horseshoe. Those properties - the Horseshoe Casino and Hotel and the Tunica Roadhouse Casino with their 1,800 jobs - stayed open. It included more than 1,200 hotel rooms in three buildings, a golf course, a shooting range, an RV park and a kids arcade, knit together by a 24-hour bus system that connected Harrah's with Caesars' two other nearby casinos in Tunica County. Caesars, facing $23.6 billion in debt, said it wasn't making enough money to run the sprawling 2,200-acre Harrah's campus.
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