A Casino destination city on china? Yes, that’s exactly what it is, and not only a destination city, Macau today is the Casino destination city because as of 2008 its Casino revenue has surpassed Las Vegas and Atlantic City by far. The most contrasting thing about this city is its background and how it happened.  Demanded as an autonomous region by the Portuguese government to China on 1840 and returned back on 1999, as a port city Macau enjoys of a great deal of culture tourism because of his Chinese roots and the easing of the immigration laws. The Casino destination started back on 1962 when only a single company owned the licenses of operations of Casinos on the land which ended on 2002 with the granting of more licenses to other Casinos operators. Two years later the Casinos of Las Vegas reclaimed their part of heaven to convert Macau in what it is today.

Macau operates as a Special Autonomous Region (SAR) in which for the next 50 years the peninsula will handle their administrative affairs and China Mainland will handle the defense and foreign affairs. Under the policy “one nation, two systems” Macau have control over the legal system, the police, his monetary system, his immigration and delegates to international organizations and events.

As it’s usual for colonies when the Portuguese sailors arrived to the colonies and requested the name they were told by the natives, that the palace was called “A-Ma-Gao” with means Bay of A Ma, which lead the Portuguese to name the peninsula Macau. The Chinese name means “Inlet Gates”.