If you have any questions or want to express your interest in participating in the next Macau wintermester tour, please contact Joseph Bozsik by e-mail at jbozsik@unr.edu or by phone at (775) 784-4711.
This class can be used as an upper division elective for the Gaming Management minor. Additionally, Economics, Management and International Business majors may be able to use the class toward their undergraduate degree requirements. Contact your faculty advisor to see where it will fit into your degree program.
MBA students can use the class toward their area of emphasis, which allows for 9 elective graduate credits.
Commercial gaming is an international enterprise which requires a serious examination of local regulatory structures and business and cultural practices before entering into and while operating in new jurisdictions. The international expansion of gaming has no better illustration than what can be seen and experienced in Macau, one of two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China. Macau is comprised of the Macau peninsula and what were two islands (Taipa and Coloane), which have since become one island when the sea once separating them was filled in to create the Cotai Strip. Macau is positioned next to mainland China's bustling Guangdong province and is only a short 45 minutes by ferry from Hong Kong. It is home to more than a half-million people situated on just over 11 square miles of land. Macau has a rich history and culture with the blending of East and West, as the city-state has been heavily influenced by the Portuguese since the 1500's.
This course explores such complexities and allows students to understand them in a unique way-by traveling to Macau! Students will be able to experience the city firsthand, which will give context and texture to the usual information they would otherwise hear anchored to a classroom in Nevada. With the handover of Macau to mainland China came the end of Stanley Ho's Macau casino monopoly and an influx of billions of dollars of capital investment into the city with such American gaming brands as Wynn, Sands, Venetian and MGM-Mirage. Students will be able to see many of these new lavish and imposing casino properties that have changed the face of the city. The course will also include tours of Macau and Hong Kong where students will see many cultural and historic sites.
Carlos Siu, M.B.A., Ph.D., is an associate professor at Macau Polytechnic Insitute. Dr. Siu will lead the Study Tour throughout the program. He will be assisted by Joseph Bozsik, administrative faculty for the Institute for the Study of Gambling & Commercial Gaming. Established in 1989, the Institute was the first academically oriented program of its kind and serves as a structure to broaden the understanding of gambling and the commercial gaming industries worldwide.