• Introduction
• 1. Aruba
• 2. Atlantic City
• 3. Goa
• 4. Las Vegas
• 5. Macau
• 6. Mississippi Gulf Coast
• 7. Monte Carlo
• 8. Nassau & Paradise Island
• 9. Niagara Falls
• 10. Sun City

Mississippi Gulf Coast

There’s big change in store for the riverboat frontier along the Mississippi Gulf Coast – the birthplace of gambling in America.  The waterfront gambling towns of Biloxi and Gulfport are back on their A-game post Katrina, with some hundred million dollars of expansions in the works. Thanks to the ban on land-based casinos being lifted in 2005, the area is on the rise to become a major gaming hotspot in the southern US. Most of the old stationary boat casinos, built on offshore barges, were destroyed in the hurricane, but with the bulk of rebuilding focused inland, with flashy new casino resorts in Biloxi like MGM’s Beau Rivage, the Hard Rock, and the IP Casino Resort Spa, that sought-after Sin City feel is actually palpable in this Bible Belt state. So, so long Redneck Riviera, say hello to the new Las Vegas of the south. 

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