Abstract
This paper provides a general overview of some of the more salient aspects of Donald Trump's Trump Hotels and Casinos. The description of the corporation includes a list of the corporate executives, a brief history and context of the corporation. A description of casinos currently operating under this corporation, and marketing strategies for the Taj Mahal casino is also included. The analysis portion of this study highlights the financial successes and failures of the corporation. The final evaluation of the corporation is based on a synthesis of all information previously discussed. Prospects for the future of the corporation are examined.

Executive Summary
Corporate Executives
Brief History and Context
Casino Description
Casino Marketing: The Taj Mahal
Financial Analysis
Evaluation and Prospects for the Future

From the Paper
"By 2004, the corporation's stocks had fallen 82% to $2.38 a share. At the time, this was little more than the cost of one ride of the New York City subway. And this abysmal performance had nothing to do with the casino industry. During the same period, rival MGM saw its shares rise by 223%. In 2004, Trump Hotels and Casinos was once more in Chapter 11 proceedings while it tried to figure a way out from underneath $1.8 billion in debt through corporate restructuring. In short, the history of Trump Hotels and Casinos has been one significant financial loss after another, falling stock prices, and increasing debt burdens."

Tags:Donald, Trump, hotels, casinos, corporations, gambling

Abstract
This paper is an anthropology paper that debates the true reason for resistance to Indian Casinos. The paper wholeheartedly supports the anthropologist Darrian-Smith in asserting that the one of the ultimate reasons for resistance to Indian Casinos lies in the centuries old traditions of non-Native discrimination towards natives, and both traditional and new age stereotyping.

From the Paper
"Indian Casinos For much of hundreds of years the American people have variously exterminated, stolen from or assimilated their indigenous peoples. In more recent decades this has turned into milder forms of discrimination and stereotypical conceptualizations. The one enduring theme has been the patrimonial dominance over Native peoples, being the most regulated of all people within the boundaries of the United States. Relegated by land appropriations to remote, often worthless plots of reservation lands, the remnants of traditional Native societies have barely been able to eke out a subsistence living. However, taking advantage of laws previously designed against them, a limited number of Native American tribes have turned to Casinos as a source of revenue to alleviate them from their hardship."

Tags:indian, casinos, racism

Abstract
This document discusses the positive and negative affects that casino operations have on the tourism industry. The writer looks at the economic growth that casinos can produce and on the other hand notes that casino operations can lead to criminal activities.

From the Paper
"For the most part this is a symbiotic relationship and the one fosters the other in terms of economic activity and growth. However, while casino operations certainly fuel economic growth and expansion they also are typically accompanied by an increase in crime or criminal activity of some type. Casinos and Tourism Overview Many countries, regions and municipalities have come to rely on casino ..."

Tags:casinos, tourism, criminal

Abstract
In this article, the writer discusses how shopping centers and casinos are similarly designed to entice customers to spend more than they plan to in a broadly theoretical fashion.

From the Paper
"The shopping center and the casino represent two uniquely similar consumer-based scripted spaces in American life. Both serve as spaces where money can be exchanged for a largely unnecessary product or service or in the case of the casino feeling. Not surprisingly designers of both spaces use media in very specific ways in order to shape the nature and perceptions of their institutions. Designers of shopping centers use media to portray their facilities as public ..."

Tags:Communications, scripted space, shopping center, casino, gambling

Abstract
This is an essay arguing that casinos should be legal in Florida - along with supporting details and examples.

From the Paper
"According to an essay published on the SunCam website, Florida does not have legalized land-based casino gambling. It does however have a day-cruise facility that offers gamblers the opportunity to board ships that cruise offshore where casino gambling is legal. Florida also has seven Native American casino style gaming locations on sovereign Native American tribal land. The Seminoles have six casino locations and another casino is on the Miccosukee reservation. In addition there are two riverboat casinos in operation..."

Tags:florida casino, regressive tax, indian reservation, tax revenue, schools, crime rate, compulsive gambling, slot machines

Abstract
In this article, the writer notes that casinos have become increasingly popular in the past few years as a tool to boost the growth of local economies. The writer points out that as casinos do generate local employment opportunities and enhance the local income, several rural communities in the U.S. have implemented a form of casino gambling as a way to revitalize their flagging economies. It has been the experience of these communities that casinos can, at the same time, generate tremendous profits as well as run up huge costs. The writer discusses that it is essential that community members, leaders, casino owners, casino managers and public officials analyze the issues that might affect the community directly in making the changeover to a casino gambling economy. The writer concludes that having seen both the negative as well as positive impacts of casino gambling on the economy of an area, it is essential to analyze both sides of the story and come to a balanced conclusion that will result in a win-win situation for everybody. The writer further suggests that the Las Vegas model has shown what a balanced approach to casino gambling can bring to the economy of the local community.

From the Paper
"Many local communities have embraced casino gambling as a strategy to develop their local economies. The rationale behind developing casinos in their areas was to produce tax revenue and to keep the local gambling money within the community instead of losing it to other casinos outside the local community. Many US cities have been witnessing deteriorating fiscal health and have been exploring ways and means to turn around this situation. Casino gambling has steadily been emerging as one of the ways to attract revenue since the 1990s. In spite of being a popular choice as an economic development tool, the growth of casinos in the US has sparked off debates about the possible impacts on moral, social and religious life of the people. From the perspective of formulation of public policies, this debate is basically about four vital issues ..."

Tags:gambling, gaming, revenues, state

Abstract
This paper looks at the various ways casinos try to trick, manipulate, and lure their players to stay longer. It discusses how casinos are in business to make money, and they make money by keeping gamblers "glued" to the tables and slots. They use a variety of ploys to keep people inside, from removing clocks so players do not know what time it is to feeding them free drinks and inexpensive food to keep them in the building.

From the Paper
"Casinos lure gamblers to make money, and they do it any way they can, without regard for anything but their own maximum profit. How do they do it? The many ways they lure their "lambs to the slaughter" may be surprising in their variety, sheer ingenuity, and absolute disregard for anything but money. As author Popkin notes, "Since all casino games give the house a mathematical edge, the longer a player gambles, the greater the house's chance of winning" (Popkin 104). Just about anyone who has visited a casino can recognize some of the tactics, from no windows to free drinks, but underneath the flashing lights and dim interiors, there are numerous other ways the casinos manipulate players into staying longer at the tables and slots."

Tags:gambling, slot

Abstract
This paper explains that gambling has always been part of the United States; even in the original colonies, lotteries were used to raise money, so that playing lotteries even became a civic responsibility. The author points out nine ways to manage money while gambling in a casino, such as using a progressive method of betting by setting a predetermined percentage increase for each winning bet and sticking stick to that. The paper relates that, in the past, casinos gave away rooms and served foods to attract new guests, especially the high rollers; today, non-gaming areas, including rooms, food, shows, retail space, and other aspects or features of their property, are increasingly a focus of potential profit opportunities.

From the Paper
"Casino businesses know that they must put their guests first, otherwise, these businesses are behind and fumbling. They need not only to catch up with the trend but to make giant leaps in order to remain in competition. The lesson to learn is that the casino is in business for the loyalty of each guest; therefore, that guest is at the center of it. If the guest can be made to feel like a royalty, he or she will remember it when he or she leaves, and then come back.

Tags:lotteries, profit, betting, percentage, experience

Abstract
In this article the writer discusses the positive and negative effects that casino operations have on the tourism industry. The writer maintains that for the most part this is a symbiotic relationship and the one fosters the other in terms of economic activity and growth. The writer also points out that, while casino operations certainly fuel economic growth and expansion, they also are typically accompanied by an increase in crime or criminal activity of some type. The writer concludes that casino operations and tourism go hand in hand because while the family member that is intent on gambling or gaming in the casino is engaged in that activity, the other members of the family are intent on alternate activities. Further, the writer notes that it is these alternate activities that can truly fuel economic growth based on tourism in association with casino operations within a given market.

Outline:
Abstract
Overview
Positive Impacts
Negative Impacts
Conclusions

From the Paper
"Many countries, regions and municipalities have come to rely on casino operations as a method to improve their local and national economies. Typically the reliance on the casino industry to fuel economic growth is a sound growth strategy since it does result in increased travel and tourism but it is also fraught with a certain degree of peril. Markets that engage the casino industry as a form of economic stimulus must do so with a certain degree of caution as well since along with the gamblers and tourists, criminal activity usually arrives as well in one form or another."

Tags:tourist, industry, travel, gamblers

Abstract
The following paper examines gaming casinos within the Ontario context and reviews the benefits of these operations as well as the perceived social ills arising from them - addictive gambling. The paper argues that a gaming casino in Toronto can actually work, as long as the proper measures are to put into place to protect people from themselves.

From the Paper
T"here can scarcely be any doubt that the introduction of a Casino in Toronto, as anywhere else in Ontario, is a controversial initiative. The following paper will briefly examine the background of casino gaming in Ontario by looking at the situations in Niagara Falls, Rama and Windsor. The succeeding pages will also examine the impact of casino gaming upon the local community in terms of its economic impact and in terms of its impact socially in the areas of crime, addiction and mental health. Finally, the paper will conclude with a summation of the available evidence and a recommendation on the direction the City of Toronto should take."

Tags:toronto, gaming, casinos