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March 23, 2018 • Vo. 40 No.12 • 24 pages
TOURISM
Lamar Life Building to convert to mixed use
There are two daily 737 charter flights delivering hundreds of visitors to the Gulf Coast.
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Courtesy of Beau Rivage
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Beau Rivage charter program keeps growing By LISA MONTI mbj@msbusiness.com Keeping things running at Beau Rivage Resort and Casino, with its 1,740 hotel rooms, 24-hour casino, 10 restaurants, award-winning golf course and other swanky amenities, is a massive operation. To ensure that the slots are spinning, the dealers stay busy and the hotel rooms are full, the MGM Resorts property has created its
own air charter service to bring in gamblers and golfers from 90 cities across the country. In Beau Rivage’s typical top-notch fashion, the charter service is expansive and successful for the casino resort as well as the Mississippi Coast’s tourism industry. With two daily 737 charter flights delivering hundreds of visitors, the program has “significant impact” at the airport, said executive director Clay Williams. The service, contracted through Minneapolis-based Sun
Country airline, represents 23 percent of Gulfport-Biloxi’s operations. “What’s really interesting is that it has grown exponentially — from the Southeast to the Northeast and Midwest to Texas. It’s a tremendous program,” Williams said. “People that fly in spend at least three nights, and they have additional discretionary income. It’s good for the Mississippi Coast as a whole.” See CHARTER, Page 2
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