Wynn's resort set to open in lacklustre market

Macau

US casino tycoon Steve Wynn's newest pleasure palace in Macau boasts massive dancing fountains but the Chinese territory is anything but bubbly as it prepares to welcome the US$4 billion resort to its struggling glitter strip next week.

Macau's most expensive casino yet is due to open on Monday a month ahead of a US$3 billion gaming resort by US billionaire Sheldon Adelson, marking the beginning of the end of a boom in grandiose casino construction that helped transform the former Portuguese colony into the gambling capital of the world.