Macau has become the biggest gambling destination in the world, outdoing Las Vegas several times over. From 2014 onwards, the expansion of Macau’s Cotai Strip was set to double the Chinese territory’s annual gaming revenues to $115 billion. That was a forecast laid down for 2017, but at the close of 2019, Macau looked to be on the decline.
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Casino Life magazine recently had the opportunity to interview Paul Pellizzari, Vice President of Global Social Responsibility for Hard Rock International, which is the first US-based gaming company to develop its own fully-immersive, branded casino-and-player interactive program for responsible gaming, called the PlayersEdge.
Casino’s story is one of success despite the odds. Russian casinos began to flourish in the nineties but as the millennium kicked in they became prolific. As of 2002, Russia was host to 58 casinos (30 in Moscow alone), 2,000 gambling parlours and as many as 70,000 slot machines that were loosely regulated and beginning to cause social problems. The Russian government, led by Vladimir Putin, identified this and acted decisively.
As a section of gaming, online casinos have consistently stood as some of the most progressive. From the early days of running over 56k connections to the modern age of smartphone adoption, whenever a leap in technology was made, online casinos would soon be there to follow.
While US gaming groups are focusing on placing their bids for the upcoming Integrated Resort (IR) in Japan, one outlier, to name Hard Rock Casinos, is looking to position itself in the Spanish market.
With the results for the gambling industry in the country consistently improving since 2008, Hard Rock Casinos may be up to a very lucrative investment. The proposed €2 billion project Hard Rock Entertainment World was approved in May 2018.
If you love playing online slots or are new to the game, then you may have heard of the term RTP and wondered what it means to you as a player. If you are new to the game, RTP simply means a return to player and this is quite a significant feature of online gambling.
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