The Wynn Marjan in Ras Al Khaimah will be home to the UAE’s first casino,
Ras Al Khaimah is currently writing gaming laws for the casino, using Singaporean and US regulations as its foundation with the Wynn Marjan planning its casino operations in the emirate.
“We certainly don’t want to underbuild the casino,” Wynn Resorts CEO Craig Billings said. “The casino component, where at least for some period of time, we will be operating on our own, which makes it quite exciting is shaping up to be somewhat larger than Wynn Las Vegas, but with numerous pockets of energy and compression.”
The resort will be located on Dream Island, an unused area on Ras Al Khaimah’s Marjan Island. It will be the sole resort on Dream Island.
The emirate’s tourism development authority has already created a division specifically for regulating integrated resorts, with a new Department of Entertainment and Gaming Regulation also set up to “consider the social, cultural, and environmental landscape of the emirate and cover licensing, taxation, operational procedures, and consumer safeguards,”
