In the pursuit of efficiency, hotels in highly touristic areas such as Atlantic City are reduced to their essential minimum. And services become a convinience. The hotel becoming a mere resting point on the road to the casinos.
When the busy nightlife takes over, who wants to bother with people behind a counter, and the possible moral questions they hold in their eyes. And who wants to pay their wages?
Everything the active, and betting man, needs is right there. At hand.