Macau is no longer our little brother in the Pearl River Delta. Last year the enclave attracted more tourist arrivals than Hong Kong, and if I was a gambling man, I’d wager it is about to overtake Hong Kong in the clubbing stakes as well.

Fuelled by a surge in casino money – since 2007 the city has raked in more gambling revenue than Las Vegas, making it the world’s top gaming destination – the city is undergoing a clubbing boom which at this stage looks like will be centred on the unlikely venue of the Venetian casino.

Did you notice an exodus of party people out of Hong Kong when the Venetian hosted the Hed Kandi pool party the other Saturday? Although the event was pushed inside to the ballroom due to Typhoon Molave, clubbers came back raving about the high production standards, the $750 bottles of Moet, and the discovery of a seriously high-quality venue.

Add to that an even bigger three-room electronic music event featuring Christopher Lawrence and Brodinski scheduled for the Venetian on August 29, rumours of a massive music festival at the casino later this year, and the opening of funky clubs in the city such as Cubik, and you’ve got the makings of a Macau clubbing renaissance.

The Venetian – being the largest single-structure hotel building in Asia and the fourth-largest-building in the world by area – and nearby venues like the City of Dreams are literally rolling in a commodity that we are in seriously short supply of here in Hong Kong: space.

In the past 12 months big names such as the Black Eyed Peas, Linkin Park and Beyonce have bypassed Hong Kong and headed straight to Macau, and with gaming revenue starting to dip it’s likely that the big kahunas at the casinos will be increasingly looking at events such as rock concerts and dance parties to keep the punters flowing in.

Dance parties of this scale in Hong Kong would be tied up in red tape and pestered by the boys in blue, but in Macau – with its anything-goes attitude and more, um, relaxed moral standards – they have the potential to go through the roof. See you on the Turbojet.