Corporate bits | Conrad Macao receives three hospitality awards

Conrad Macao, Cotai Central has added another three accolades to its awards: China’s Top 10 Most Popular Resort Hotels at the 2016 Golden Pillow Awards, Recommended Chinese Restaurant in the 2016 Target Taste Awards and China’s Top 100 Hotels by the China Travel Awards 2016. The awards ceremony was held by the Chinese edition of leading travel magazine, Travel + Leisure.

Conrad Macao, Cotai Central was the only Macau hotel named in the 2016 China’s Top 10 Most Popular Resort Hotels category at the 13th Golden Pillow Awards in Shanghai on September 3.

The award specifically targets five-star hotels in mainland China, Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Launched in 2004 by China’s 21st Century Business Herald, China Hotels’ Golden Pillow Awards represent one of China’s most closely followed and authoritative hospitality award platforms, with more than 500 five-star hotels entering each year.

MGM kicks off responsible gaming workshops

MGM rolled out a series of internal Responsible Gaming activities this month to support the eighth annual Macau Responsible Gaming Campaign.

The three-week activities, part of the Company’s comprehensive Employee Assistance Program – Enrich Your Life (EAP), consists of the premiere of MGM’s first homemade short film, workshops and other interactive games for its 6,000 team members.

A special ceremony took place at the resort’s back-of-house area last week to launch MGM’s first short film on the subject of “Gambling with Borrowed Money is Harmful”, echoing the theme of the Macau’s Responsible Gaming Campaign 2016.

The gaming operator said it would run a workshop today, titled “Understand Why Gambling with Borrowed Money is Harmful”, to raise awareness of gambling disorders and educate employees on coping with such conditions.