An increasing number of Las Vegas Strip casinos are allowing visitors to use digital wallets to pay for rooms, meals and other non-gambling amenities.
MGM Resorts International has begun accepting various digital forms of payment at nearly all points-of-sale at its 12 Las Vegas resorts. Transactions can now be completed using Android Pay, Apple Pay, Google Wallet and Samsung Pay.
Caesars Entertainment has launched WeChat Pay, a mobile electronic pay platform that’s huge in China and boasts 600 million active users worldwide.
Caesars is accepting WeChat payments at its 11 Las Vegas properties and for greater ease has deployed handheld scanners at 16 locations at Caesars Palace, Paris Las Vegas and the Linq Promenade.
“This is the trend,” Claire Yang, Caesars’ director of international marketing. ”I firmly believe that American customers will adopt digital payments in the future. It’s the way to go. Credit cards will become obsolete.”
