All 80 game tables and 850 slot machines form a kind of orbit around a multi-story glass sun by American artist Dale Chihuly, around which swarm scantily-clad resort guests, crisply-attired croupiers and more than a few celebrities (rumoured recent sightings include Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber).

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Backroads is another very well-known and respected active travel company doing biking, hiking, walking and multi-sport trips around the globe.

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So a business correspondent wandered around the multi-coloured set, dodging moving graphics which the unwary might have feared would squash her.

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