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Hugh Hefner is contemplating opening a Playboy Mansion in the burgeoning gambling mecca of Macao, says his daughter Christie.

She says that the 40,000-square-foot Playboy Mansion Macao, scheduled to open in late 2009, will be complete with female "bunny" dealers, a villa-style hotel, and several dozen gaming tables.

Hefner’s daughter also said that the mansion would give her father’s firm a key foothold in China, after a failed attempt to build a club in Shanghai several years ago.

There has been a significant increase in gambling revenue in Macao, located an hour by high-speed ferry from Hong Kong, ever since the government ended a monopoly in 2002, and let Las Vegas casino brands like Wynn, Sands and Venetian start their businesses.

Since Macao is the only place on the Chinese territory where gambling is allowed, many tourists who can't bet at home frequent the area.

"Asia ... is a very important region for us," the China Daily quoted Christie Hefner, head of Playboy Enterprises Inc., as saying.

She also said that 40 per cent of the 800 million dollars that their firm earned in retail consumer sales last year came from Asia.

Christie further said that the Playboy Mansion Macao, styled after the original Playboy Mansion in the US, would follow the company's planned opening of a club at the Palms Resort in Las Vegas in October.

She, however, did not divulge any information about the amount of money spent on it.