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Hungary allows 7 additional casinos
To boost tourism and create more jobs, the Hungarian Ministry of Economy has issued seven licenses for establishing new casinos in the country.
Five of them will be located in the capital Budapest and the surrounding area, while the other two will be located in the cities Debrecen and Nyiregyhaza in the eastern part of Hungary. More…
Casino St. Gallen and a compulsive gambler make agreement
A regular player has sued the casino of St. Gallen in Switzerland, accusing them of not having protected him from playing, despite his known addiction.
The two sides have now come to find an extrajudicial agreement. More…
Difficulties continue for Belgian casinos
The international economic crisis, and the competition from online casinos has caused a lot of harm to the casino industry in many countries.
This is particularly the case in France but also in Belgium.
The situation of the sector in the country is still rather worrying. More…
South Korea opens its market to foreign casino operators
Taking the success of the casinos of Macao as an example, South Korea now wants to compete with the former Portuguese colony.
On the 18th of March, the Korean government decided to open the market to foreign gambling operators. More…
A new Macao casino inspired by the Château de Versailles
This week, the first stones of a new casino will be laid in Macao. Called Lisboa Palace, the future establishment will be designed in part by the Italian designer Gianni Versace.
It will bring together more than 700 game tables, a space for performing weddings, and three hotels with 2,500 rooms in all. More…
The EuroVegas project will not be achieved
In December 2011, we announced in this column that the group, Las Vegas Sands, directed by businessman Sheldon Adelson had planned to construct an immense leisure complex, oriented toward the casino near Madrid in Spain.
With a budget of 16 billion euros, the center would have created more than 260,000 direct and indirect jobs in a country where the unemployment rate is at 21.5 percent. More…
Delta Corp begins development of casinos in India
Currently, Asia is emerging as the major continent for the land-based casino industry.
To prove this point, you just have to look at the success of Macao and Singapore or even the development of gambling in Vietnam and the Philippines, in particular.
The next emerging market in this sector could be India. More…
Floating casinos in Hong Kong
If the gambling industry is encountering great success in Macao, as discussed, notably, in this short article, it is largely because of Macao’s status as the only region in China to allow casinos.
Of course, the titanic revenues being generated in this former Portuguese colony engender a fair amount of greed. More…
Europe requires clarifications from Belgium
On 1 September 2011, Belgium liberalized its online gambling market, as we reported in this article.
However, the legislation that had been approved was immediately criticised by gaming operators, which considered it non-compliant with EU law. More…
Zurich welcomes the biggest casino in Switzerland
Projects to build new casinos are currently soaring, whether they will be in Madrid in Spain or in South Korea.
This time is the city of Zurich that has welcomed the opening of a new casino – on 1 November – which is now the largest in Switzerland. More…