Cotai
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22°08′27″N 113°33′47″E / 22.14082°N 113.56310°E
Cotai 路氹城 Cotai | |
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Cotai | |
Zona do Aterro de Cotai in Macau | |
| Country | China |
| Special Administrative Region | Macau |
| Region | Municipality of Ilhas |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5.8 km2 (2.2 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | ~300 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (Macau Standard) |
| Area code | 0 |
| Cotai Landfill Zone | |||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 路氹填海區 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 路凼填海区 | ||||||||||||||||
| Jyutping | lou6 tam5 tin4 hoi2 keoi1 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||
| Chinese | 路氹城 | ||||||||||||||||
| Jyutping | lou6 tam5 sing4 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Portuguese name | |||||||||||||||||
| Portuguese | Zona do Aterro de Cotai | ||||||||||||||||
Cotai (Chinese: 路氹城; Cantonese Yale: Louhtáhm Sìhng; Portuguese: Cotai) is a 5.2-square-kilometer (2.0 sq mi) piece of reclaimed land on the top of the Seac Pai Bay between Taipa and Coloane islands in Macau[1] that has connected two independent islands since 2005. The name, which is a portmanteau of Coloane and Taipa, can also refer to the island formed by the reclaimation. In the second sense, the Special Administrative Region of Macau now consists of the Macau Peninsula, plus Cotai Island, about a mile to the south.[2]
Cotai was created to provide Macau with a new gambling and tourism area, since Macau is so densely populated and land is scarce. Many hotels and casinos can now be found on the island.[3] In 2006, a new hospital was founded in the Cotai area, the MUST Hospital, which is associated with the Macau University of Science and Technology Foundation.
History edit
In 1968, a causeway (Estrada do Istmo) connecting Taipa and Coloane was inaugurated.[4] Throughout the 1990s, a series of landfill works expanded this isthmus, and after the 1999 transfer of sovereignty over Macau from Portugal to China, further landfills began to expand this small isthmus further.
Hotels and casinos edit
The "Cotai Strip" is a name designating the entire hotel-casino area, where the term "Cotai Strip" has been trademarked by Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which coined the phrase (USPTO Registration Nos. 4396486 and 4396486 for gambling and hotel services), and only applies to its properties.[citation needed]
Galaxy Entertainment Group's Grand Waldo Hotel was the first casino to commence operations in Cotai, opening its doors in May 2006.[citation needed] The construction of many other casinos and hotel projects is currently underway. The largest and most notable property on Cotai so far is Las Vegas Sands' The Venetian Macao, which opened its doors on August 28, 2007.[5] Melco PBL Holdings opened the City of Dreams directly across the street from the Venetian on June 1, 2009.[citation needed]
As of October 2023, a number of new hotel-casinos have already opened in Cotai, with more in the pipeline for the ensuing years. Two of the most highly anticipated additions to the region are the Grand Lisboa Palace and the Lisboeta Macau, both scheduled to fully launch soon.[6][7]
List of hotels and casinos edit
- Four Seasons Hotel Macao
- Broadway Macau
- City of Dreams
- Galaxy Macau
- Grand Lisboa Palace
- Lisboeta Macau
- MGM Cotai
- Pousada Marina Infante
- Studio City Macau
- The Londoner Macao
- The Parisian Macao
- The Plaza Macao
- The Venetian Macao
- Wynn Palace
Tourist attractions edit
Transportation edit
- Cotai Jet – high speed catamaran owned by The Venetian Macao, operating ferry services between Taipa Ferry Terminal and Hong Kong–Macau Ferry Terminal, Hong Kong
- Macau Light Rapid Transit - a mass transit system in Macau that began partial operations in 2019. Planned expansions will serve the Macau Peninsula, Taipa and Cotai, serving major border checkpoints such as the Border Gate, the Outer Harbor Ferry Terminal, the Lotus Bridge Border, and the Macau International Airport. The Ocean-to-Taipa-Ferry-Terminal line began operations in late 2019.
Gallery edit
- Ferry piers in Cotai
- Cotai Strip under construction in 2007
- Cotai in 2007
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See also edit
Footnotes edit
- ^ Tan, Anthony (25 November 2006). "Must-see Macau". The Star. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ . Archived from the original on September 16, 2018. Retrieved 2018-12-23.
- ^ Starkweather, Maxim. . Macau Casinos. Archived from the original on 2017-03-25. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
- ^ Quadros, Saldanha (15 March 2018), "Macao, Cotai, and The New Architecture", Macao Magazine, retrieved 2020-04-16
- ^ Venetian Macao press release, 28 August 2007
- ^ "SJM flags casino ambitions for newly opened Lisboeta Macau". IAG. 19 July 2021. from the original on 2021-07-20. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
- ^ "GGRAsia – Grand Lisboa Palace opens at noon, all new tables mass play". GGRAsia. from the original on 2021-07-30. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
External links edit
- Cotai travel guide from Wikivoyage
- Media related to Cotai at Wikimedia Commons