An Invitation to an Evening of Pleasure & Business

The Marina Sands, in a week's time will be conducting their sales promotion in KL. It will be interesting to see the new concepts and branding theme's that this world  class team will bring to our corner of the earth. It will also be exciting to see  these Las Vegas outfit's Corporate Social Responsibility efforts through their targeted /  themematic sales programmes. I have asked my son Utheya to clear his schedule for this invite as it offers him a good market evaluation of a world class PR and Corporate Retail/Sales team at work.

As you can probably deduce from the above, we malaccan's are spoilt nowdays with offers and promotions that our bigger city cousins like KL & Singapore has experienced for years. The Good Thing about this retail efforts by the Casinos to solicit market control and introduce their own new products and life style sales is that the retail sector has enable the moneyed people in the smaller towns and cities now with more choices, places and options within 1.5 -2.5 hours drive from Malacca. Taking  into consideration the vast amounts of money invested on these properties, I foresee our malaccan economic contribution to these life style products to increase in the foreseeable future,along with the myriad down stream opportunities that will manifest i.e more of our young working for these  properties, earning and expanding the middle income group within the smaller towns  and cities within a 3 hour flight zone from s'pore & m'sia and eventually more curious  manifestations of economic and knowledge based endeavors borne out of plain, simple business acumen. Of course the flip side of the coin is more marginalization of the disenfranchised; the poorly educated; the slow to catch on and the weak. Basically, more shit will happen through new avenues for the down trodden. Businesses that cannot compete, offer less value added than their competitors will suffer; also poor central planning on everything from pavement size in the future to the size of the  community playground will also bring forth new political repercussions as the citizenry becomes more aware of their own worth. The impact of these business entities, I predict, will open the minds of our people  across cultural, political and societal mores very soon. But, I'm digressing. Genting Resorts promotion for the elderly and localised  citizenry of the inner suburbs. RM 50 gets you a 8 course Chinese Dinner; Staged MC / Entertainment and lucky  draw vouchers to Resorts World ! My Tourism Association is making plans to have an out of town meeting in Yangoon, Myanmar early August. Looking at the developments in Macao, within a year of the arrival of WYNN and Sands Casinos, many of these outer Rim countries will be targeted first as customers and later as the Macao & China's local labor forces get expensive and more selective, as labor supply for these behemoth retail lifestyle properties. It will be proper that we read the level of marginalization well to observe apolitically the coming  possible future societal scenarios.