The title of "World's Largest Casino" belongs to the Venetian Macau, now that the newly constructed gambling resort has opened its doors to a sea of bettors in the busiest gambling destination in the world. On August 28th, the Venetian Macau's parent company, Las Vegas Sands, held an opening ceremony in the property's 15,000 seat arena, where Diana Ross commemorated the ceremony with a live rendition of her song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".

Nothing short of enormous, the Venetian Macau needed over 20,000 construction workers and three million sheets of gold leaf to help turn it into the fancy casino resort that it is. Complete with tiny canals like the real Venice, the Venetian Macau promises to be a central landmark in Macau, likely surpassing Wynn's Macau resort in popularity. Using enough power to feed 300,000 homes and employing 16,000 people to keep it up and running, the Venetian Macau is certainly the largest edifice in all of Asia. The resort has 3,000 guest suites, over 1 million square feet of convention floor space, over 1.5 million square feet of retail shopping and a 550,000 square foot casino offering 800 table games and 3,400 slot machines.

It is one of the most expensive too. According to the South China Morning Post, the cost to build the resort exceeded Macau's public works budgest spanning the last five years. Although construction costs surpassed the original $1.8 billion estimation by little over a half billion, Las Vegas Sands feels good about the future. Eager gamblers have already begun swamping the casino floor from the second its doors opened.