“So before going to Resorts World Las Vegas, you download the app,” Michaels explained. To borrow a phrase from an old credit card commercial, the Resorts World Las Vegas app you download onto your smartphone is being touted as something you won’t want to leave home without. To be clear, along with Sightline, a host of tech and gaming companies have collaborated on bringing the cashless experience to Resorts World, a complex with 3,500 rooms and suites, and 117,000 square feet of gaming space on 88 acres. Jonathan Michaels, senior vice president for strategic development and government affairs at Sightline Payments, a financial technology company, explained that Sightline’s methods of moving money would provide customers with a seamless convenience that will enhance the overall casino experience.
And that includes doing away with - as much as possible - old-fashioned physical moolah. Whether casino patrons are ready to give up cash is a major question that will begin to be answered when the $4 billion Resorts World Las Vegas casino-resort opens on the north end of the Strip on June 24.ĭeveloped by Malaysian-based Genting Berhad on the site of the old Stardust casino, the luxury Resorts World promises to be “the most technologically advanced casino in the world,” according to an executive of a company that’s helping the newest kid on the famous Vegas block be a 21st-century gaming leader.
