Global mega-resort boom comes to Europe

From Hotel News Now – If all goes according to plan, ground will break before the end of this year for Europe’s first gaming mega resort, with investors envisaging a $6-billion project covering almost 1,500 acres with six casino-hotels totaling 18,000 rooms. Dubbed BCN World, the project, which is an hour’s drive south of Barcelona on the Mediterranean Sea, is expected to open in 2016. It is just the latest of a number of mega resorts planned around the world over the next few years, including one in Madrid. “Mega resorts are nothing new except in Europe,” said Ivar Yuste,…