Gaming Meetings
Properties that have long had green back-of-the-house programs in place are starting to be more vocal about them
BETTING G ON GREEN
GAMING DESTINATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE LURING MEETINGS GROUPS WITH ECO-FRIENDLY INITIATIVES
By William Ng
aming destinations may hold reputations for being places of excess rather than conservation, but hospitality stakeholders have been hard at work—perhaps quietly—in the last several years making major and small casino locales alike ecologically sound. Operators like Harrah’s Entertainment and MGM Mirage have mobilized under corporate mandates to transform their operations and properties to be environmentally minded. Initially employee engagement and internal cost-efficiency
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