NEWS & NOTES

Starting January 1, the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas will no longer charge guests separately for parking and valet service. Parking will be incorporated into the resort fee, which will rise from $35 to $39. Parking and valet currently cost $10 and $18 a day, meaning the change will result in $6 to $14 in savings for guests driving into the Las Vegas Strip resort. • Las Vegas’ South Point Hotel and Casino has filed an application with the Nevada Public Utility Commission to leave electricity provider NV Energy and buy power on the open market beginning July 1, 2019. South Point is the eighth Nevada company to apply to leave the utility his year and the eighth casino operator to do so since 2015. • Indian police recently raided seven Mumbai online lottery centers, arresting 11 people for evading a goods and services tax by issuing hand-written tickets. The centers were giving tickets to various online lotteries, including Goa’s authorized “Lucky Four.” ● Singapore welcomed almost 15.5 million foreign visitors from January through October 2018, up 7.14 percent year-on-year. Figures from the Singapore Tourism Board show that the biggest increase was in visitors from Southeast Asia. That number grew to nearly 5.4 million arrivals, 5.5 percent more than in 2017. ● Sands China’s Sands Cares Ambassador program is holding a year-long series of events that will culminate in its 10th anniversary in August 2019, with the theme “Spreading Love and Embracing Our Community.” More than 3,300 employees are currently enrolled in the program, which supports voluntarism in the community. ● The “Fuji excursion,” an express train connecting Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station to Kawaguchiko Station in Japan’s Yamanashi Prefecture will begin service in March, targeting tourists who want to travel directly from Tokyo and enjoy views of Mount Fuji. ● The Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe has announced that its long anticipated Class II casino on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts could open this summer. Tribal Chairman Cheryl Andrews-Maltais mentioned this fact, but not much else, to a local official, according to a report in the Vineyard Gazette. Previously the tribe announced its partnership with the Chickasaw Nation for a $12 million Class II casino in the town of Aquinnah.