snug in the position where we have formed a strong professional team, which really oversees the daily perations have the time and space to consider long-term perspective strategies for the future. betty: of the 30 million visitors who come to macau to roll the dice each year, more than 60% are from mainland china. hong kong is a one-hour ferry ide. pansy: what has been surprising is the swiftness with which chinese consumers are changing. in many ways, they are not the type of stereotype that we would have thought about the chinese consumer market, their patterns and behavior. this is a very fluid group of people. they are full of curiosity. their requirements continue to change over time. we can already see that happening during the past seven or eight years. betty: pansy ho also runs a ompany that operates turbo jets, a high-speed ferry service between macau and hong kong, competing directly with adelson. last year, her ferries transported about 28,000 people a day. pansy: we have been running the terminals, the ferry terminals. we have a direct experience. we know how to manage and how to co