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Caesars Palace is a casino-entertainment company that operates over 50 casino resorts around the world. Their properties include over 40,000 hotel rooms, and 300 restaurants, along with retail shopping centers and other entertainment venues.\u00a0 Caesars\u2019 annual revenue totals over $9 Billion, making it one of the largest Casino’s in the business. Of the company’s profits, 30% \u00a0is derived by millions of gamblers trying their luck on the casino floor. The profit from gambling comes from a small expected percentage of up to 10% (depending on the game) that the casino has as a \u201chome advantage\u201d over the players. Some people relate to gambling as a tax for people who don\u2019t know math. But most gamblers are usually well aware of their disadvantaged position. The dream of getting rich is only a small part of Caesars value proposition. It is the thrill and the excitement a player gets that creates this fun and sometimes addictive experience.<\/div>\n
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Caesars knows that the worst thing for business is not a player that wins the jack pot, but rather a player that stops playing or decides Caesars brings him\/her bad luck and goes to play at a competitor\u2019s casino. That is why, in order to retain customers and continue to extract more money from them, Caesars’ launched its Intelligence Group with the goal of collecting data on their customers.\u00a0 The Intelligence Group later evolved to become Enterprise Analytics.\u00a0 This department made Caesars a pioneer in its industry when in 1999 it started using its Total Rewards loyalty program system to conduct customer data analytics. In order to attract customers to stay at Caesars properties, the Total Rewards program provides members with single-card access to all its casino locations and activities. In 2013, Total Rewards had 45 million members. Caesars tracks customers purchasing behavior when customers use their card every time the they shop or dine at one of Caesars\u2019 properties. Caesars monitors customers gambling behavior every time customers gamble. The casino calculated what was the players expected loss (calculated by the amount of money that was gambled, times the percentage of \u201chome advantage\u201d). For instance, a player who exceeds over $400 of expected loss per day (not necessarily equal to actual money loss) was considered a \u201cwhale\u201d (a player that gambles a lot) and was treated by a special casino host.<\/div>\n
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In exchange for that information, customers get credits, which can be redeemed quickly, and without the limitations or conditions that other industries impose. Members received invitations to special events, gift giveaway promotions, shopping trips, concerts, clubs and festivals. Members had multiple ways to redeem the Total Rewards credits they earned, including purchasing items at participating property outlets such as restaurants, and at the Total Rewards Marketplace, which features a range of retailers.<\/div>\n
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The casino-entertainment industry has become very competitive, and today every casino company offers its own loyalty card. In order to capture more value, casinos use analytics to improve their operations in order to increase the\"caesars-palace-on-the-strip-randy-harris\"<\/a> customer experience. Data Analytics is used for various goals including forecasting rooms\u2019 occupancy, better utilizing the casino property, and making internal processes like the average check-in time at the hotel reception more efficient. Casinos battle for every customer, trying to keep them on their property and stimulating them to spend money in any way possible.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the casino industry has suffered from a clientele that is still a little bit traumatized. It seems like casinos’ abilities to extract more money from domestic customers is reaching its limits, and American casino companies\u2019 main source of growth now comes from expending to foreign markets. Caesars future is not very bright on that end, since it did not get a gambling license in Macau, the \u201cLas Vegas of the East\u201d, while MGM, Wynn and Sands are taking over the South Asian market. Caesars will have to act quickly and reinvent itself if it wants to become the pioneer of the next technology breakthrough.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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