The Seminole Tribe of Florida owns Hard Rock Cafe International, which includes a network of more than 120 Hard Rock Cafes in some 45 countries. In addition to the Hard Rock restaurants, the Seminole Tribe owns two Seminole Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos (in Tampa and Hollywood, Florida), as well as five more non-Hard Rock casinos, also in Florida. The Seminole Tribe also operates a cultural and historical museum adjacent to its gaming facilities in Hollywood, as well as various educational programs at six reservations throughout Florida (Big Cypress, Brighton, Ft. Pierce, Hollywood, Immokalee, and Tampa).

MGM Grand Hotel operates one of the world's largest casino resorts. Opened in 1993, the MGM Grand Las Vegas includes four towers with more than 6,000 hotel rooms and some 160,000 sq. ft. of casino space, which includes some 2,500 slot machines and 160 table games. The casino, which takes up an entire city block on the Las Vegas Strip, also serves as a venue for concerts, sporting events, and magic shows. Other attractions include a Cirque du Soleil show, restaurants from celebrity chefs such as Wolfgang Puck and Emeril Lagasse, shopping outlets, a swimming-pool complex, a spa, a wedding chapel, and a lion habitat. MGM Grand is a subsidiary of MGM Resorts International.

Cirque du Soleil ("Circus of the Sun") is probably the only organization where you can get away with calling the founder a clown. The group has turned the circus on its ear, blending street entertainment, eccentric costumes, and cabaret. Among its nearly 20 current productions presented across the globe are "O" (an aquatic show in Las Vegas at MGM Resorts International's Bellagio); Love, a Las Vegas show featuring music of the Beatles (with support from Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and from the widows of George Harrison and John Lennon); and touring shows Quidam and Alegría. Accordionist, stiltwalker, and fire-eater Guy Laliberté co-founded Cirque du Soleil in 1984; he is the company's majority owner.

Pismo Coast Village, Inc. was founded in 1975 and is based in Pismo Beach, California. Pismo Coast Village, Inc. owns and operates a recreational vehicle (RV) resort in Pismo Beach, California. The company operates Pismo Coast Village RV resort, a full-service 400 space recreational vehicle resort. Its resort operations include site rentals, RV storage business, video arcade, and laundromat. The company also operates a general store, RV parts store, and RV repair shop. In addition, it has a recreation department that provides a youth program, and recreational equipment rental services.

Leona's Pizzeria operates about a dozen pizza restaurants in and around the Chicago area. The small casual-dining chain's menu features Leona's signature Sicilian style pizza, along with appetizers, sandwiches, lasagna, and other Italian-style entree items. In addition to dine-in seating, most of the restaurants offer delivery and catering services. Matriarch Leona Pianetto Molinaro Scemla opened the first Leona's in 1950; her family, led by Salvatore Toia, continues to own and operate the chain.

Maybe for this company the restaurant business is like a box of chocolates. Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurants operates and franchises about 30 themed eateries under the name Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurant & Market. Inspired by the 1994 film Forrest Gump, the casual dining restaurants offer a menu of seafood appetizers, entrees, and sandwiches. The chain has about 20 restaurants in 10 states along with another dozen international locations; most Bubba Gump units are found at tourist destinations such as the Mall of America and the Universal Orlando theme park. Former CEO Scott Barnett created the chain after striking a licensing deal with Paramount Pictures in 1996.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. was founded in 1969. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a hotel and leisure company worldwide. The company primarily operates luxury and upscale full service hotels, retreats, and residences. It also engages in the development, ownership, and operation of vacation ownership resorts; marketing and selling vacation ownership interests in the resorts; and provision of financing to customers who purchase such interests. In addition, the company develops, markets, and sells residential units at mixed use hotel projects. As of December 31, 2009, its hotel portfolio included 979 owned, leased, managed, and franchised hotels with approximately 292,000 rooms. The company also had 22 vacation ownership resorts and residential properties in the United States, Mexico, and the Bahamas. It operates hotels and resorts under various brand names comprising St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, W, Westin, Le Meridien, Sheraton, Four Points, aloft, and Element.

Thousand Trails is making happy campers of the more than 130,000 members who use its campsites in the US and Canada. Thousand Trails company's dues-paying members have access to more than 80 campgrounds in more than 20 states and in British Columbia. The grounds offer amenities such as electricity, water, sewer connections, convenience stores, game machines, and laundry facilities. Members who do not bring their own accommodations (cars, RVs, tents) can rent cabins or campers from the company. In addition, thousand trails company publishes recreational lifestyle magazine Trailblazer, which has more than 65,000 paid subscribers. Thousand Trails company is a subsidiary of real estate investment trust Equity LifeStyle Properties.

NOVOMATIC Holding is an integrated global gaming company and, as a producer of high tech gaming equipment and operator of gaming outlets, aimed at constant balanced growth. Novomatic AG offers its products and operations only in well regulated markets with precise regulatory frameworks. The main markets of the group are the Member States of the European Union; the Central, Eastern and South Eastern European markets where Novomatic was, due to its early market entry, able to establish an excellent position; as well as expanding markets with exceptional growth such as Asia and Latin America.

Larry Blumberg doesn't want to leave anyone out in the cold. Larry Blumberg and Associates (LBA) develops and manages hotels (brands include Best Western, Fairfield Inn by Marriott, Hampton Inn & Suites, Red Roof Inn, and Holiday Inn) in the southeastern US. Its portfolio includes about 50 properties in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. LBA also offers operations and asset management, accounting, and sales and marketing services to third party hotels. CEO Larry Blumberg developed his first hotel -- it is still managed by LBA -- in 1972.

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