One popular Arkansas casino is Cherokee Casino in Siloam Springs. This 50,000 square foot casino is open 24 hours a day and features a restaurant and a bar with live music. This Arkansas casino boasts 813 electronic gaming machines and over 40 tables for card games, roulette, craps and more-including 19 poker tables. One interesting feature of Cherokee Casino is that they offer poker games that are played against other players rather than the house. Cherokee Casino is an Arkansas casino worth checking out. Another Arkansas casino, located in Holiday Island, is Spinzz Casino. This Arkansas casino was closed down because of gambling law disputes but has recently reopened for business. Guests visiting Spinzz Casino can stay at the nearby Spinzz Casino Hotel to be close to the action.

Though there are not many Arkansas casinos, there is a town with a rich casino history, which also happens to be former President Clinton’s boyhood hometown. Hot Springs, Arkansas, in addition to being celebrated for its naturally 140-degree mineral springs, was one of America’s original “sin cities.” The town was a meeting place for gangsters, but instead of shoot-outs and showdowns, crime families such as the Nittis and the Capones would come to Hot Springs to sit down and talk. Historic Arkansas casinos were rampant in Hot Springs, and despite their “illegal” designation, residents of the town insisted that the casinos were good for business. At its peak, Hot Springs served as a Mecca for gambling and tourists flocked to the colorful Arkansas casinos lining its streets.

Arkansas has been a center of tourism. This has been around the varied hunting of wildlife that is available in Arkansas, as well as some key natural sites. The caves and caverns of the Ozark Mountain region of Arkansas are world famous. This creates extensive business opportunities in setting up tourist facilities from upscale hotels to cabins and camping out in the woods facilities. In the southwest portion of the state are the Blanchard Springs Caverns. These caves have been largely explored with walkways and illumination. The actual tours of the caves are run by the National Parks Service, but there are extensive other tourist facilities nearby. For example, about a 15 minute drive away, in Mountain View, Arkansas is the Ozark Folk Center. There are traditional music and dance performances and also demonstration of age-old crafts of the mountains, such as blacksmithing, pottery making and basket weaving.

Arkansas has also been known for its hunting. For many, it is the duck hunting capital of the world, or at least of North America. There is much wildlife in the state of Arkansas on millions of acres of public land. If you are planning an Arkansas hunting or fishing vacation, be sure to purchase your Arkansas state hunting permit in time. There is also some big game hunting in the state with 1 million or so deer, and also elk and black bears. Of course, if you want to go into business feeding these tourist and hunting activities, the doors are wide open. Just get your Arkansas incorporation and you could set up a bait shop, for example. There is a complicated system for the bait and lures needed not only for fish, but also in the duck hunting trade. Modern guns are used in hunting, but other hunting seasons have the use of bows and arrows, muzzle loading guns and crossbows.