Cotai

Cotai Landfill Zone
Cotai Landfill Zone
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	路氹填海區
Simplified Chinese	路凼填海区
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Lùdàng Tiánhǎi Qū
IPA	[lûtâŋʈʂʰə̌ŋ xàɪtɕʰý]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Louhtáhm Tìhnhói Kēui
IPA	[lou˨.tʰɐm˩˧ tʰiːn˩.hɔːi˧˥ kʰɵy˥]
Portuguese name
Portuguese	Zona do Aterro de Cotai

Cotai

路氹城
Cotai
Cotai 路氹城 Cotai
Zone
	Cotai
	Zona do Aterro de Cotai in Macau
Country	Macau
Region	Municipality of das Ilhas
Area
• Total	5.8 km2 (2.2 sq mi)
Population (2016)
• Total	~300
Time zone	UTC+8 (Macau Standard)
Area code	0

22°08′27″N 113°33′47″E / 22.14082°N 113.56310°E / 22.14082; 113.56310

Cotai (Chinese: 路氹城; Cantonese Yale: Louhtáhm Sìhng) (Port. Zona do Aterro de Cotai) is a 5.2 square kilometres (2.0 sq mi) piece of newly^[when?] reclaimed land on top of Seac Pai Bay between Taipa and Coloane islands in Macau,^[1] that has not yet^[when?] been assigned to any of the freguesias. The Chinese and Portuguese names are a portmanteau of the two islands, Coloane and Taipa.^{[citation needed]}

Cotai was created to provide Macau with a new gambling and tourism area since Macau is so densely populated and land is scarce, and many hotels and casinos can be found in the vicinity of the "Cotai Strip".^[2] In 2006, a new hospital was founded in the Cotai area, the MUST Hospital, which is associated with the Macau University of Science and Technology Foundation.

Casinos and hotels

The "Cotai Strip" is a name dubbed to the entire hotel-casino area, when the term "Cotai Strip" has been trademarked by Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which coined the phrase (USPTO Registration Nos. 4396486 and 4396486 for gaming and hotel services), and only applies to its properties.

Galaxy Entertainment Group's Grand Waldo Hotel was the first casino to commence operations in Cotai, opening its doors in May, 2006.^{[citation needed]} The construction of many other casino and hotel projects is currently underway. The largest and most notable property on Cotai so far is Las Vegas Sands' Venetian Macao, which opened its doors on August 28, 2007.^[3] Melco PBL Holdings opened the City of Dreams directly across the street from the Venetian on June 1, 2009.

As of February 2016, several new hotel-casinos have opened in Cotai, with several more scheduled to open in 2016 including the Wynn Palace and the MGM Cotai. Somewhere close to USD $50 billion has been or is being invested in Cotai.

Hotels and Casinos

Tourist attractions

Macau East Asian Games Dome

Transportation

Cotai Jet – owned by The Venetian Macao, operating high speed Catamaran ferry services between Taipa Temporary Ferry Terminal and Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Terminal, Hong Kong

Gallery

Ferry piers in Cotai
Cotai Strip under construction in 2007
Cotai in 2007
MUST Hospital

Footnotes

^ Malaysia Star, Must-see Macau, 25 November 2006
^ Starkweather, Maxim. "History of Cotai - The Creation of Cotai - Macau Casinos". Macau Casinos. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
^ Venetian Macao press release, 28 August 2007