page_title: Tunica Resorts, Mississippi
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Tunica Resorts, Mississippi / Economy
caption_attribution_description: English: Mississippi Blues Trail marker located in downtown Robinsonville just off Old Highway 61
context_page_description: Tunica Resorts, formerly Robinsonville, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in northern Tunica County, Mississippi, United States, north of the county seat of Tunica. The community is situated mostly between the Mississippi River and U.S. Route 61 along the border with Arkansas.
  The population as of the 2010 census was 1,910. Tunica Resorts is the site of six casino resorts, and at one time generated the third largest gambling revenues in the nation, after Las Vegas and Atlantic City, New Jersey, but competition has increased in other locations, including properties owned by Native American tribes and operated on their reservations. The use of the name "Tunica" by the resorts led to the alternative name of Tunica Resorts to make it easier for tourists to find the destination.
context_section_description: As of 2020, the town is home to six casinos:
  1st Jackpot Casino Tunica
  Fitzgeralds Casino & Hotel Tunica
  Gold Strike Casino Resort
  Hollywood Casino Tunica
  Horseshoe Casino Tunica
  Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall
  At one time, eleven different casinos were operated in the community. Resorts Casino Tunica, Tunica Roadhouse, Treasure Bay Casino and Grand Casino Tunica closed, and the Isle of Capri (originally the first of three Harrah's locations in the area) was bought by the neighboring Sam's Town resort; it is used only for its hotel tower and parking garage.
  The community is remarkable in that there is little infrastructure other than that which adjoins the casinos. Businesses other than the casinos include a small number of motels, convenience stores and fast food restaurants, along with an outlet-style shopping center, and the community's oldest business, the Hollywood Cafe, a blues club immortalized in the popular song, "Walking in Memphis," by Marc Cohn in 1991.
  Small apartment complexes mainly occupied by casino workers are among the few dwellings found in Tunica Resorts. Outside of such structures — many built since 1990 — table-flat cotton fields mark much of the area, as was the case before the casinos came.
caption: A Mississippi Blues Trail marker at the Hollywood Cafe in Tunica Resorts
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