Las Vegas, Nevada

The entertainment capital of the world. Famous across the world for its luxurious and extremely large Casinos, hotels together with their associated activities. It is estimated that there are 63 casinos in Las Vegas and more than 5600 big and small hotels which contain a total of more than 150,000 rooms in Las Vegas. It is the city with the most number of hotel rooms in the world. Tommy Hull was a business man who was granted a license to build a casino in Las Vegas. He built El Rancho, the first hotel casino in the city. It was built in the area that came to be known as the Vegas Strip. Tommy Hull’s success brought many other business men to Las Vegas and many hotel casinos were built. The most famous of which, the Flamingo, was built by the famous mobster Bugsy Seigel in 1946.