Golden Moon Hotel Casino

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians says it will operate its Golden Moon Hotel and Casino only three days a week and is eliminating 570 non-tribal staff positions as part of a broad restructuring plan intended to save money. The president and chief executive of Pearl River Resort, the Choctaw enterprise that manages Silver Star Hotel and Casino and Golden Moon, announced the plan recently. Operational changes and layoffs come in response to the U.S. recession, a decline in gaming industry revenues and the over-expansion of Pearl River Resort relative to the size of its market, he said.