Oct 18, 2013
Executives
Daniel J. Briggs - Vice President of Investor Relations Sheldon Gary Adelson - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer, Chairman of Las Vegas Sands LLC, Chairman of Sands China Ltd and Chief Executive Officer of Las Vegas Sands LLC Robert G.
Goldstein - Executive Vice President and President of Global Gaming Operations Michael Alan Leven - President, Chief Operating Officer, Secretary, Director and Chairman of Advisory Committee
Analysts
Shaun C. Kelley - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division Felicia R.
Hendrix - Barclays Capital, Research Division Steven E. Kent - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division Thomas Allen - Morgan Stanley, Research Division Carlo Santarelli - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division Cameron Philip Sean McKnight - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division Harry C.
Curtis - Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., Research Division Robin M.
Farley - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division
Operator
Good afternoon. My name is Toni, and I will be your conference operator today.
At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Las Vegas Sands Corporation Third Quarter 2013 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Thank you.
I would now like to turn the conference over to Daniel Briggs, Vice President of Investor Relations. Sir, you may begin.
Daniel J. Briggs
Thank you. Before I turn the call over to Mr.
Adelson, please let me remind you that today's conference will contain forward-looking statements that we are making under the Safe Harbor provisions of federal securities laws. The company's actual results could differ materially from the anticipated results in those forward-looking statements.
Please see today's press release under the caption Forward-looking Statements for a discussion of risks that may affect our results. In addition, we may discuss adjusted net income and hold-normalized adjusted net income, adjusted diluted earnings per share and hold-normalized, adjusted diluted earnings per share and adjusted property EBITDA and hold-normalized adjusted property EBITDA, all of which are non-GAAP measures.
A definition and a reconciliation of each of these measures to the most comparable GAAP financial measures are included in the press release. Please note that this presentation is being recorded.
We also want to inform you that we have posted supplementary earnings slides on our Investor Relations website for your use. We may refer to those slides during the Q&A portion of the call.
[Operator Instructions] With that, let me please introduce our Chairman, Sheldon Adelson.
Sheldon Gary Adelson
Thank you, Dan. Looks like we have so many adjustments, our adjustments have given birth to other adjustments.
Good afternoon, everybody, and thank you for joining us today. We are extremely pleased with our record financial results, which continue to reflect strong execution of our strategic objectives.
We delivered outstanding growth in revenue, cash flow, net income and earnings per share this quarter, with our adjusted diluted earnings per share up 78.3% to $0.82 per share. Hold-normalized diluted earnings per share increased 47.2% to reach $0.78 per share.
Take that you guys who underestimated us. Importantly, the power of our unique convention-based, Integrated Resort business model, which truly sets us apart in the industry, is increasingly being reflected in our financial results.
Looking back to the 2-year period ending December 31, 2012, and out of the largest 100 U.S. public companies, we were the 11th fastest in net revenue growth, the ninth fastest in EBITDA growth, the eighth fastest in net income growth and #3 out of 100 in earnings per share growth.
Looking ahead, we are confident that our business model gives us a sustainable competitive advantage in the Integrated Resort industry as we seek new development opportunities. We are the leaders in the industry and our unique convention-based business model, coupled with our financial strength and focus on operational excellence, will contribute to our growth in the years ahead.
The highlights of the quarter, from my perspective, are as follows: First, we delivered another record quarter in Macau, where we are growing faster than the market, in both the mass and VIP segments. Second, the confidence we have in our business and the reliability and predictability of our cash flows has allowed us to raise our recurring dividend for the 2014 calendar year to $2 per share, an increase of 42.9%, compared to the $1.40 recurring dividend we will have paid this year.
Yay dividend! And third, we returned nearly $300 million of capital to shareholders this quarter through stock repurchases.
I guess $299 million is close enough to say $300 million. Our financial results continue to reflect the strong performance of our 4 principal strategic objectives.
Please allow me to remind you of those objectives and to what they do, and our execution against them. Number one, maximize organic growth from our property portfolio; objective number two, deliver additional growth by making new investments in our current markets; objective number three, identify and nurture new Integrated Resort development opportunities in geographic areas outside of our current markets; objective number four, continue to increase the return of capital to shareholders.
So focusing on organic growth, adjusted property EBITDA across our Macau property portfolio grew 60.8% to reach a record USD 784.3 million. Our mass table win in Macau for the quarter was up 61.2% to reach a record USD 1.06 billion in a market that grew approximately 38% in the quarter.
So our growth was 61% faster than the Macau market in the most important and most profitable segment in Macau. The VIP business is also experiencing [ph] growth, with our Rolling Volume increasing 26% to reach a record USD 45.4 billion.
That represents VIP market share of approximately 18.2% of Macau market Rolling Volume, compared to 15.5% one year ago. Our growth in VIP revenue for the quarter was nearly 2/3 faster than the Macau market.
The Venetian Macao delivered another strong quarter, and due to our market-leading investments in non-gaming operations, continues to lead the Macau market in visitation and business and leisure tourism appeal. Our fundamental multi-tiered Integrated Resort development strategy, which features convention, exhibition, hotel, retail and entertainment offerings, helped delivered 16.7 million visits in the quarter to our property portfolio, including nearly 8 million visits to the Venetian Macao.
EBITDA at the Venetian Macao increased to USD 357 million. The Venetian's Non-Rolling chip drop increased 75.8% to reach a property record USD 2.01 billion.
The Four Seasons Macau delivered a property record $112.9 million in EBITDA, an increase of over 107% compared to the third quarter of 2012. Rolling Volume per table per day increased 48%, while mass table wins increased 113%.
Sands Cotai Central, our latest and largest property on the Cotai Strip, continues its steady ramp and delivered a property record $224 million in EBITDA this quarter. No property in the history of Macau has reached that level of profitability so quickly.
It looks to me like it's kind of close to a run rate of $1 billion. Sands Cotai Central is rapidly approaching becoming the third property in our portfolio to produce more than $1 billion of EBITDA per year and we look forward to it soon joining The Venetian Macao and Marina Bay Sands in Singapore with that distinction.
We welcomed over 4.5 million visitors to Sands Cotai Central during the quarter, as our investments in non-gaming amenities have contributed meaningfully to both the tourism appeal and financial success of the property. Looking ahead in Macau, we look forward to generating growth in our Cotai Strip properties across all segments, as tens of billions of dollars of infrastructure investments in Macau, Guangdong Province and Southern China enable more people to more easily reach Macau.
These infrastructure investments includes the world's most expensive and extensive high-speed rail system, a $10 billion bridge directly connecting Macau and Zhuhai with Hong Kong, and more than $20 billion of investments in the Special Economic Zone of Hengqin Island, which is adjacent to Macau and Guangdong Province, essentially adjacent to Cotai. The infrastructure expansion will be kept up by the opening of the Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai Bridge, which is currently scheduled for completion in 2016.
The bridge will allow passengers arriving by plane at the Hong Kong International Airport to reach Macau in as little as 20 minutes, which is faster than the time it takes to reach Hong Kong. It's really a phenomenon.
How many cities get the opportunity to adopt and bring as close to your city as almost as close as the airport of your city, to bring in a substantial portion of Chinese residents that cannot get to Macau because of the size of the airport and the number of airlines servicing. They have over 100 airlines servicing Hong Kong.
So all you have to do is come out of the Hong Kong airport, where the side of the bridge is located on Lantau Island. Turn one way, and you go to Macau in 20 minutes.
You turn the other way, you go to Hong Kong in 45, that is, Hong Kong Island. The Hong Kong International Airport served over 56 million passengers in 2012, and was the world's 12th visited airport last year.
The airport provides service through more than 100 airlines, to more than 180 cities around the globe, including 44 in Mainland China. If Macau is looking to attract many times the visitors that it has today, nobody could have picked a better situation as to be close to a fully mature, major international.
So in the future, Macau will be conveniently served by 2 airports, including one of the most important in the world, not just one. Now I want to turn to Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
We produced EBITDA of $374 million this quarter, which was up over 43% compared to the $261 million we generated in the same quarter 1 year ago. Rolling Volumes were stronger compared to the quarter last year, and we have 2.85% against that volume, compared to 1.79% last year.
In addition, our hotel business reflected strong growth, with ADR increasing to USD 401, with occupancy approaching 100%. That means like between 99 and 100.
Let's turn to strategic objective #2, development growth in our current markets. Construction continues at The Parisian Macau, our fifth property on the Cotai Strip and our sixth in Macau overall.
Based on our current schedule, and subject to timely government approval that may be required, we are targeting a late 2015 opening of our latest Integrated Resort, so no change in that targeted opening date. However, I talked to our head of development yesterday and he said there was some opportunity to potentially -- not committing to it -- to potentially pick up, pick up, up to a couple of months in schedule, and he told me yesterday that we, of 3, out of a couple thousand pylons [ph], we have 3 pylons [ph] left to go.
We already have a lot of pile caps in and we're starting the structure above the pile caps. So very pleased with the progress we're making on that, on the Parisian.
Moving onto strategic objective #3, the development of Integrated Resorts in new markets in geographic areas. In Asia, activity levels in Japan have increased and we are pursuing the potential for IR development in this promising market, with great enthusiasm [indiscernible].
Korea has also shown increased activity and we are looking forward to potential development opportunities. With respect to our European development in Madrid, there are a number of various steps left in the development process.
Any investment would be subject to the receipt of government approvals and the finalization of the grants and incentives package that would enable investment and provide the environment [indiscernible]. Finally, let's review strategic objective #4, the return of capital to shareholders.
Yay return of capital! We have now returned more than USD 5 billion of cash to our shareholders through dividends and stock repurchases over the last 21 months, including nearly $4.4 billion to Las Vegas Sands shareholders and over $700 million to the non-LVS shareholders in Sands China.
That $5 billion includes nearly USD 600 million returned to LVS shareholders this quarter alone, through dividends and stock repurchases. As I mentioned before, we raised our recurring dividend to $2 per share for the 2014 calendar year, an increase of 42.9%.
We have every intention of increasing the recurring dividend at Las Vegas Sands in the years ahead, as our business and cash flows continue to improve. We have $1.65 billion remaining under the current stock repurchase authorization, and in the future, we expect to repurchase at least $75 million of stock per month.
We look forward to continuing to utilize the program to return capital to shareholders and to enhance long-term shareholder returns. Before moving to your questions, please allow me to share with you the reasons we believe our leadership in Integrated Resort development and operation will be sustainable in the future.
First, we have a convention-based business model that is unique in the Integrated Resort industry. That expertise sets us apart from others and positions us extremely well to win the most promising future growth and development opportunities.
There is hardly a city or country in the world that doesn't want more tourism and convention- and exhibition-driven business. We are the dominant specialist in that.
Second, we are long-term strategic developers in our business. When we developed the Cotai Strip, we were building for the future market.
The market that will develop with the emergence of the Asian middle class and the completion of the major infrastructure projects that provides them greater access to the [indiscernible]. Our focus on building non-gaming amenities, dining, retailing, entertainment, convention and exhibition facilities as vital components of our Integrated Resort properties, is another example of our long-term strategic vision.
We have invested the most in Macau in non-gaming offerings, with 25% of our EBITDA generated from hotel, retail, convention and exhibition businesses, and those non-gaming investments benefit us in both financial returns and is differentiating us from other companies as we pursue new development opportunities. A third point that will contribute to the sustainability of our business is that we have the industry's most experienced leadership team, with the proven ability to execute our strategy.
Fourth, we run our operations efficiently. We generate the industry's highest profit margins.
We are focused on maximizing cash flow and delivering for our shareholders on the bottom line. Let me emphasize one final important point.
The scale of our business and the strength, reliability and predictability of our cash flows allow us to return capital to shareholders while maintaining balance sheet strength and the ability to develop large, iconic projects that will generate great utility for our host markets and outstanding return for our shareholders. It's my job, together with our outstanding management team, to make sure we stay disciplined and continue to execute strategies that will both extend our industry leadership in current and new markets, and generate strong growth and outstanding return for our shareholders through the years ahead.
I couldn't be more confident about our continued success. With that, let me turn the call over to the operator to begin the Q&A session.
Daniel J. Briggs
Operator, we're ready for the first question, please.
Operator
Okay. Your first question comes from the line of Shaun Kelley with Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Shaun C. Kelley - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division
[indiscernible] taking my question. Guys, I think that the key focus I'd like to ask about is probably on the margin side here.
So it looks like 3 of your 4 properties in Macau did above 30% EBITDA margin this quarter and I think the big surprises were both Sands Cotai Central and the Four Seasons. So I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about what you were doing to continue to drive, I think, mass market growth, in particular, at those properties and how you're able to kind of yield up, maybe the hotel rooms, what you guys are learning about that that's allowing you to deliver such strong margins there.
Sheldon Gary Adelson
[indiscernible] good luck.
Robert G. Goldstein
Shaun, it's Rob. Obviously, we're pleased at SCC, the numbers.
It'll end up being the third property in the LVS portfolio to exceed $1 billion of annual EBITDA in the future. But we believe there's considerable room to grow the business.
SCC, as you know, has almost 6,000 hotel rooms on Cotai, and at this point, there's 200 less mass table games at SCC versus The Venetian. So in the spring, we open up our premium mass offering of 75 more games.
So we believe the story at SCC is just beginning. It's in its infancy from my perspective.
We believe the potential growth there is material for a lot of reasons. But in answer to your question, we're obviously happy with our win-per-unit.
The margin driver there is the mass table business and that has grown immeasurably. We're almost at the industry lead there in Cotai, and yet we only have less than 300 games.
So the margins at SCC are predicable and when you have a focus like we do and a room base, and as you know, the most important predictor of gaming habit is where you sleep, and most people sleep with us because we have the most rooms. So I think Sands Cotai Central, although we're very, very pleased with the performance this quarter, it has a lot of room to grow, well beyond the current number.
You referenced Four Seasons, and again, we're pleased with Four Seasons. After the re-segmentation, our junket performance there is exceptional, it always has been.
But I think also for the first time, we're getting strong results out of the premium mass segment. We have over 60 games or so there now, not sure about the exact number.
But the key at Four Seasons is to get the proper mix between junket. We are very strong proponents of both segments, the junket mix and the mass table mix or premium mass table mix.
Four Seasons is highly desirable for consumer in Cotai. And again, we've got that right this quarter, but to get to our goal of $500-plus million of annualized EBITDA, we've got to keep working on our mix and keep working on that, use the rooms and the team there is very focused on that.
So we're very pleased with both SCC and Four Seasons, but we think both stories are in the infancy, and there's considerable growth in the future for those properties.
Shaun C. Kelley - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division
And I guess just one follow-up, we've gotten a few questions on Singapore as well. In that property, obviously, normalized hold for the first time in a number of quarters is encouraging.
But a couple of questions on operating expenses there being up a little bit, both sequentially and year-on-year. Could you comment if there's anything either in there that was maybe dragging on margin just this quarter or just any one-time items?
That would be helpful.
Robert G. Goldstein
Well, I think you know that our focus in Singapore has migrated over to the foreign visitations, and that includes more rooms to the premium mass customer who comes to that property. We're still running 60%-plus margins in that segment.
We're delighted with our progress there. As you know, we've spoken in previous calls about the challenge in Singapore, vis-a-vis visitation of locals.
Our team there is very focused on driving our foreign visitation. We're up over 46% year-on-year in that segment.
That segment does require sleeping rooms. The casinos pay for those rooms, so that is somewhat -- the hotel benefit, so its a yin and yang on that.
But the truth is that we want to keep driving more foreign visitation, premium mass. As you know, we're at 4 or 5 a day.
Our goal is to get to 5 million a day. That's where the growth resides in Singapore for us.
So it may drive a few points of margin here and there, but at the end of the day, if we get that number to 5 million a day, the overall EBITDA in that property will accelerate quite a bit.
Sheldon Gary Adelson
Shaun, I'm sure you know that we all love you, but we also love the other girls at the dance.
Shaun C. Kelley - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division
I will yield the floor.
Sheldon Gary Adelson
You better yield the floor. We'd like to keep the questions to 2 per person.
You could come back again later if we have more time.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Felicia Hendrix with Barclays.
Felicia R. Hendrix - Barclays Capital, Research Division
Can we just stay on Singapore for a minute then, Rob? Just to continue along that line, what was the cash RevPAR then or your cash ADR, however you want to give us that number.
And was there an increase in commissions that you paid there as well? Because, according to our calculations, it looks like there might be.
Robert G. Goldstein
The commissions on the VIP are consistent with -- were not escalating commissions, they remained the same. The Rolling Volume was $13.75.
As for RevPAR, I think RevPAR was pretty close to the $400 number because of the -- Mr. Adelson said we were all virtually full, and we had a $401 U.S.
average rate, so RevPAR was almost at the $400 level.
Felicia R. Hendrix - Barclays Capital, Research Division
Okay. So just trying to understand the comment, your answer to Shaun's question.
So in terms of giving more rooms to the premium mass segment, you're trying to attract more of the foreign visitor, just sounded like maybe you were giving more rooms away. So just again, how is that?
Sheldon Gary Adelson
Yes, we are. That's the issue.
Robert G. Goldstein
You're exactly right. The market was driven by local and now we're moving towards more of a foreign visitation market and to get our casino win, the premium mass, beyond the 4.2, 4.4, 4.5 a day, our focus has been on foreign visitation, which obviously acquires fly-in customers and rooms.
So we're buying more rooms from the hotel and that may have an adverse effect, a point or 2 in the margins.
Felicia R. Hendrix - Barclays Capital, Research Division
Okay. So the ADR that you're reporting is a cash ADR and not just the kind of casino-related ADR?
Unknown Executive
There's no material difference in the reported ADR and the cash ADR, no.
Robert G. Goldstein
Actually, we paid more in the casino segment than any other segment there is. We pay the highest rates to the hotel from the casino side.
Felicia R. Hendrix - Barclays Capital, Research Division
Okay. Did that all count as one question?
Robert G. Goldstein
That's it. You're done.
Over and out.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Steven Kent with Goldman Sachs.
Steven E. Kent - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division
Just a couple of questions, more from a corporate perspective, can you discuss the search for the CFO and where you stand? And also the same on the FCPA investigation, whether we could get a resolution on that sometime soon?
Unknown Executive
Yes. Steven, at the present time, the search for the CFO has not actually begun.
We continue to talk about when that will take place. Probably not -- if at all -- not until the end of the year or the beginning of next year.
At this time of the year, it's not really a good time. We're moving along the same way we've been organized for the last 4 months.
And as far as FCPA, there's nothing new to report. That investigation continues to go on and there's no real indication as far as when that will be completed.
Steven E. Kent - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division
Okay. Then my second question, Rob, you said that international play is up 60%.
Where is it actually? Did you say the number, what percentage is now, international?
Robert G. Goldstein
Yes. I said, in Singapore our foreign visitation, premium mass, is up 46%, in that segment.
The driver of our success in Singapore, in the premium mass segment, is foreign visitation. Because, as you know, we have challenges in local visitation.
So the growth there is material. I didn't reference this, but we're thrilled to see the non-Guangdong visitation into Macau actually bypassing Guangdong visitation.
So with our room base, that's a very positive thing for us. They stay longer, come from further away and require sleeping rooms.
So Sheldon's 9,000 sleeping rooms in Cotai turned out to be a pretty good idea. And as that accelerates and the infrastructural improvements continue, I think we'll see more demand for those rooms.
So that foreign visitation, from non-Guangdong, is the Macau driver for us.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Thomas Allen with Morgan Stanley.
Thomas Allen - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Just in terms of the capital returns. In your original remarks, you mentioned that you expect to buy back at least $75 million of stock a month.
Is that an annual target, so you'll do $900 million a year or more or are you really going to do it -- you have a minimum monthly commitment? And are you still planning to take advantage of volatility in your stock price?
Michael Alan Leven
I don't think, Tom, this is Michael. We're not going to be opportunistic.
We're committing to buy a minimum of $75 million worth of stock a month. And if it does become an opportunity to buy it at lower price, we can put in more money if we wish.
But at this point our commitment is to buy $75 million a month until the $1.6 billion that's available under our agreement to buy $2 billion is used.
Thomas Allen - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
That's helpful. And then should we assume that you're not going to pay a special dividend at the end of the year, given the buybacks and the increase recurring?
Michael Alan Leven
There hasn't been a discussion at this point, about a special dividend. That'll be discussed towards the end of the year.
At this point, we can't really answer that question.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Carlo Santarelli with Deutsche Bank.
Carlo Santarelli - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division
Big picture, just thinking about Japan and other Asian opportunities out there. Could you guys talk a little bit about how you would frame them over time, in terms of how you're thinking about CapEx, maybe some of the differences in building in a market such as Japan or Tokyo relative to your experiences in Singapore and Macau?
Michael Alan Leven
Sure. Carlos, it's Mike.
Japan would obviously be the most expensive investment we've ever made from a single property standpoint. The estimates range anywhere from $6 billion in Tokyo and up.
There's been some comments, recently, about construction costs going up in Japan because of the Olympics. So it's likely to potentially run higher than that.
In Korea, we would not expect to spend that kind of money at all, would probably be less than the Singapore property and significantly less than Japan. In countries like Vietnam, we'd expect lower construction cost there because labor and construction are both lower.
And if, per chance, Taiwan would take place, it will probably look like something like Korea. So we're pretty well in touch, through our development department, in every one of those places to understanding the exact economics involved from a construction standpoint.
What we don't know in Japan is what the tax rates will be or in any of these other countries at this point. So we can't estimate the bottom line.
But we can, in fact, estimate not only construction, but cost of operation, which we're doing all the time.
Carlo Santarelli - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division
And then just one quick one, it's not a very big or material number, but I did notice next year's CapEx, you guys have a $215 million investment in current properties. Are there any special projects that you guys are thinking about?
Michael Alan Leven
Yes. Our CapEx, on an annual basis, for the products we have today, represents close to $500 million annually.
That CapEx is divided into property maintenance, which essentially is keeping the products where they are, and a combination of other investments which involve profit opportunities that we find within the properties to upgrade. The present plans are to spend approximately that money on an annual basis.
Unknown Executive
And, Carlo, the red in that Slide on page 24, the $250 million, is Theater Box 5 [ph] and Four Seasons. So that's what that money is designed to pay for.
Michael Alan Leven
New development money represents other money on top of the maintenance CapEx.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Cameron McKnight with Wells Fargo.
Cameron Philip Sean McKnight - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division
Question for Rob, first of all, labor has been a big talking point. Can you comment on the labor restrictions that relate to dealers in Macau?
Michael Alan Leven
I'll answer that question. Rob only cares about how much is being played at the tables.
I take care of the labor with Chris. The answer to that question is, that from a dealer standpoint, there will be Macanese dealers and Macanese croupiers.
That's what the government wants and that's what we intend to do. All the comments that have gone on in the last month about that have caused a lot of uproar in the local community in Macau.
I don't think anybody, including us, is prepared to venture away from those rules at all, and the government assures us that we'll have enough people available at the time when we have more tables and more situations, and we will follow the rules directly on that area.
Cameron Philip Sean McKnight - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division
And then as a follow-up, as we think about capacity and the projects that are being built over the next 5 years, what do you think is more important in driving EBITDA? Is it hotel rooms or is it tables?
Robert G. Goldstein
It'd be both, right?
Sheldon Gary Adelson
You're talking about in Macau?
Cameron Philip Sean McKnight - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division
In Macau, yes.
Robert G. Goldstein
Okay, both are very important. Let's be clear, you can't do one without the other.
The key to our success has been this room concentration. I think, again, going back 2 years ago when we built these large projects and people were questioning the approach, but today we look at the relative table versus room relationship, it's obviously clear that we have a huge advantage by all those sleeping rooms.
So tables, you have to have the tables, and obviously, that's an issue in Macau. But never forget how important the sleeping rooms are, and with the table caps, tables are more valuable than ever, but the sleeping room equivalent -- that sleeping room piece of the puzzle is evident every day as we go forward.
And our success in Macau, we keep growing our table games, our mass tables are over 1,000 now, but we can do that because we have the sleeping rooms to drive that revenue. So they're related beyond anyone's comprehension years ago.
Sheldon Gary Adelson
There's a big coincidence of events, we have a huge multi-tens of billions of train infrastructure built or being built, bringing in more people. We have, in 3 years or less, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau airport opening up, that will give Macau essentially a very mature, very highly-patronized international airport.
It's a very, very unique position. So the more people come in and the table cap sit, the more win per table per day we're going to experience.
So we could see it's already happening. So we can go from say, $11,000 or $12,000 [indiscernible] $13,000 per table in mass.
It will go up to $13,000, $14,000, $15,000, $17,000, $20,000. It could go higher.
So with the limit on table caps and just more people coming in, we're going to have a lot more win per day.
Robert G. Goldstein
The other thing I'll just mention, on top of Sheldon's comments, one more thing. The size of the facility, there's obviously a table cap and obviously sleeping rooms are a challenge for the market, but The Venetian and our larger buildings, the SCC, afford us the ability to add more ETG units and capitalize on the huge size of these buildings.
And a lot of [indiscernible] capacity, so that's another opportunity for us to keep adding more ETGs and growing our business that way.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Harry Curtis with Nomura.
Harry C. Curtis - Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., Research Division
A couple of quick questions, following up on Japan. Could you just give us an update on your views of the legislation and what the likely outcome will be as far as the ownership structure?
Michael Alan Leven
Harry, as far as the ownership structure, we do not have any news at all, about partnerships or what have you, at this point. There's been some rumors in the market about having a Japanese partner, all the way to Japanese majority that I've seen in print, but there's nothing that our people on the ground know about any significant, really, indication as to what the Japanese ownership, if any, would be at this particular point in time.
On the legislation, you probably know the same things we know. They're talking about, by December, having the first phase of the legislation done.
Our best knowledge, today is, we're not sure. It could be December, it could be January.
All the press has been favorable, but Japan has been trying this for many, many years and it's not really -- we really just can't predict when that legislation will happen. And then there's talk about a year to 2 after the legislation, lots of talk now, about 1 year, before a final decision.
But once again, that is not known either. So at this point, we're optimistic.
I think everyone is optimistic that Japan will do something, but at the end of the day, I don't think anybody is able to really predict it.
Sheldon Gary Adelson
They're focusing on -- this is Sheldon. They're focusing on 2 things.
One, the Integrated Resort model out of Singapore. They're focusing on the social protections, like perhaps the $100 admission fee, a levy; and secondly, they're focusing on conventions.
There's no company in the world that has the convention experience like we do. Anybody, any journalist, any analyst, anybody in the politics, in government, says that the frontrunner by far in the close position is Las Vegas Sands Corporation, because we're the experts in both of what they're looking for.
They're looking to create tourism. Our Integrated Resorts, in the first 24 months, increased tourism in Singapore by 41%.
They generally acknowledge, we have changed Las Vegas with our business model and convention base. We changed Macau, everybody in the government would acknowledge that.
We've changed Singapore, and we can easily change any other city in which we have a MICE focus, MICE-based business model. So everybody says we're in the close [ph] position there.
We hope we're in the close [ph] position. I think that we may have a -- caught between a rock and a hard place, meaning we think that Tokyo wants us and Osaka wants us.
So we've notified both governments, we're happy to accommodate them.
Operator
Your final question comes from the line of Robin Farley with UBS.
Robin M. Farley - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division
You mentioned, in your comments, government approvals are still needed for The Parisian project. Can you just kind of highlight whether the kind of major approvals that are still needed for that to open in late 2015?
Unknown Executive
I think she's asking what approvals we may need before we open in 2015.
Sheldon Gary Adelson
Actually, I don't think I mentioned it, no.
Robin M. Farley - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division
In your opening comments you mentioned government approval, so you're saying you don't expect any additional approvals needed?
Sheldon Gary Adelson
You always need building permits. So we always put in a caveat when we talk about a schedule, assuming building permits come on a timely basis, and in Macau, they have come on a timely basis.
But I'd rather issue a caveat to say, subject to the government acting the way they've always acted, giving us building permits on a timely basis. If I said that, but frankly, I don't recall that.
But there is no specific approvals. We know that they're planning to give out tables and the last thing I heard was everybody's not going to be as happy with the table allocation as everybody would like to be, and that's -- we'll have to live with that, we think we're in a better position.
Our competitors aren't going to do any better than we have. And we have -- since everybody, all 6 concessionaires, the primary concessionaires and the sub-concessionaires, which we're one, has the opportunity.
Everybody's put in for the same number of tables for this, and if they keep the table cap at exactly where they are, we'll get them and we hope we'll get enough tables. And we'll take the lower-performing tables from other properties, which I think the government is counting on for everybody.
There'll be no advantage except we're putting up almost as many rooms as the average of the other 5 concessionaires -- the average of 2 of them, because they're averaging 1,500 to 1,700. And we're in the process of building the St.
Regis, and we're putting another 400, 500 rooms there, which is the fourth building on Sands Cotai Central. We don't see any obstacles there.
Robin M. Farley - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division
The other question was...
Unknown Executive
We're having a hard time hearing you. Could you speak into the phone?
Robin M. Farley - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division
Sure. The other question was about your reserves levels in Singapore.
It looks like as a percent of accounts receivable it's as high as it's ever been there. So just wondering what's going on with collections leading you to be so conservative with reserves.
Robert G. Goldstein
Robin, it's Rob. We've always aspired to get a higher percentage of our $1.1 billion in Singapore, reserved in the 30s and beyond.
So we're very pleased where prices are going. As you know, we're at 32% on $1,119,000,000.
Comfortable with it. I think we're being conservative and are going to keep that approach because they make sense for us.
As you know it's a challenging -- collecting money in Singapore has always been something essentially, we [indiscernible]. We feel it's difficult, we're in Singapore.
It's difficult because we are dealing with mostly Mainland Chinese customers. So we feel good about the reserve and we feel good about the level of collections we have accelerated.
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude today's conference call. You may now disconnect.