Reaction Article #3

Developer Taubman Asia Brings Ritzy Retail to Cotai

My Reactions:

According to Ray Granlund in "Developer Taubman Asia Brings Ritzy Retail to Cotai," Tanbman Asia is going to create a luxury shopping mall at Macau studio City with lot of well-known brands in order to develop it as the shopping centre in Asia.

In my view, having a comprehensive shopping mall in Macau is a really good idea. It might attract more tourists since there are theatres, hotels, gaming around, they can spend the whole day there and their shopping desire can be totally satisfied. Besides, the shopping mall will be designed as a modern architecture, I believe that it will probably become a landmark and enhance the tourism in Macau. However, The Venetian Resort Hotel was grand opened on August 28, 2007. It offers first-class facilities and has luxury shopping square. In this case, the competition between casinos is getting intense.

On the other hand, I think there should be more middle-class department stores in Macau but not only high-class shopping mall. Indeed, there is one department store in downtown. It is inconvenient to get there and people do not have more choices. I think the government should deeply concern about it.