Corporate Bits |Sands China turns off lights for earth hour

Sands China Ltd. properties switched off their exterior and non-essential lights for one hour Saturday at 8:30 p.m., joining businesses and homes around the world for Earth Hour for the seventh consecutive year. The annual event aims to raise global awareness of climate change. All Sands China properties supported the lights-out event.
Sands China’s participation in Earth Hour is part of the ongoing environmental sustainability efforts of Sands ECO360°, the global sustainability program of Sands China’s parent company, Las Vegas Sands Corp. In 2013, Sands China spearheaded the Earth Hour, Every Month campaign, which enjoyed support from hotels throughout Macao and beyond.

Galaxy promotes responsible gambling

Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) has provided the online training program for more than 9,000 team members since last month to advocate responsible gaming with a more effective approach. The targeted participants come from departments of Table Games, Security, Cage, Surveillance and Electronic Games at Galaxy Macau, StarWorld Hotel and City Clubs of GEG. According to a press release issued by the gaming operator, within four months, team members may access the online course at any time where learning content include photos and animations, thus, providing a more flexible, productive and lively learning environment. Serving as a refresher course for team members on their knowledge of responsible gaming, the training program enables them to provide effective assistance to guests suffering from gambling disorder.
Furthermore, GEG stated that it is striving to enhance the awareness of responsible gaming among team members at assistant-manager level or above where two experts, Professor Davis Fong, Director of Institute for the Study of Commercial Gaming at the University of Macau, and Mr. Lawrence Lee, an addiction specialist, were invited to deliver a three-hour training course for nearly 20 members of GEG’s Responsible Gaming Committee last week. The training focused on problem gambling causes, the history of its evolution, behavioral symptoms, treatment methods and the latest development and related measures.

MGM joins world observance of earth hour

MGM Macau once again joined the global effort in the observance of Earth Hour on Saturday, together with MGM Resorts International’s properties in Las Vegas, by switching off lights within its property for one hour to raise awareness of climate change. Organized by the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF), Earth Hour has grown into a global movement with millions of supporters in more than 7,000 cities across 162 countries since its inception in 2007.
On Saturday, March 28, at 8:30pm, MGM Macau turned off its exterior lights for one hour, including the “MGM Macau” signboard light on the building, fountain at the main hotel entrance, exterior façade floodlights, spotlights at the Lion statue and LED screen at the North-East casino entrance.  At Six Senses Spa, all treatment rooms opted for ambience candles instead of electric lighting equipment.