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Shareholders of Caesars Entertainment, which operates eight Las Vegas hotels and casinos plus more than 40 others across the country, approved on September 22 a buyout deal with privately owned Fertitta Entertainment, which owns or operates more than 600 hospitality, dining and entertainment outlets, including Golden Nugget Hotels and Casinos and Landry’s Restaurants. 

Valued at $17.6 billion, the deal involves cash paid to Caesars shareholders and an assumption of Caesars debt by Fertitta. Billionaire Tillman Fertitta is the sole owner, CEO and chairman of Fertitta Entertainment, which also has in its portfolio the Houston Rockets pro basketball team plus multiple amusement, entertainment and aquarium venues around the country.

Potential Impact on Caesars Entertainment Offerings

According to hotel-industry media outlet Hotel Dive, existing Golden Nugget properties will eventually be absorbed into the Caesars Rewards network. In addition, Nation’s Restaurant News noted that guests could see a gradual shift in the F&B landscape inside Caesars resorts.

Caesars has multi-year contracts with Gordon Ramsay, Bobby Flay and other well-known names for their iconic onsite restaurants. But future vacancies at restaurant spaces within Caesars properties could be filled by Landry’s brands such as Morton’s The Steakhouse, Mastro’s Steakhouse, Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse, Vic & Anthony’s, Landry’s Seafood House, McCormick & Schmick’s and others.

Further, government regulators are expected to decide before the deal’s closing in June 2027 whether Fertitta must sell some casino properties to reduce its concentration in Las Vegas as well in Atlantic City, where it now owns four of the nine casinos (Golden Nugget, Caesars, Harrah’s and Tropicana), and in Laughlin, Reno, and Lake Tahoe.

About the author

Rob Carey serves as content manager, news and features for Meetings Today, where he leads coverage of the latest trends, issues, data and insights related to corporate meetings and incentives as well as association conventions and exhibitions.

Carey has been covering the business-events industry since 1992, when he was hired as an intern at Successful Meetings magazine in New York while still a student at Columbia University. During his 15 years at SM’s parent company Nielsen, Carey moved steadily through the ranks to become editorial director for Successful Meetings, Meeting News and the Meeting World conference and exhibition. SM and MN won several FOLIO: Eddie Awards for editorial coverage during his tenure.  

Carey then spent 11 years as principal of Meetings & Hospitality Insight, covering not just the MICE market for various industry publications but also writing about business disciplines such as hotel management, golf-facility management, small-business operations, middle-market leadership and others. And for several years he wrote the annual trends white paper for the International Association of Conference Centers.  

In 2018, Carey became a senior content producer for MeetingsNet, an Informa media brand, and a panel moderator for Informa’s Pharma Forum annual event. 

Come September 2025, he moved to Meetings Today.  

A native of New York,  Carey now resides in the Phoenix/Scottsdale metro area with his wife Kelley and their dog Ziggy.