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NEWS Genting grows UK estate with Sheffield launch
35,000-square-foot Genting Club is the operator’s first in the county of Yorkshire Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis opened Genting’s new venue in the northern English city of Sheffield, where she was born. After nine months of development, the Genting Club situated beneath a local landmark car park encompasses 35,000 square feet over two floors, including the main gaming floor, Poker room, three bars, and late-night lounge with touchscreen tables that allow patrons to learn Blackjack and Roulette as well as play games and DJ. The new location is also highlighting its food offer. The 160-cover Fahrenheit Bar and Grill is named after the Josper Grills used to prepare some dishes, which can reach temperatures of 1000 degrees, while the pan-Asian menu in the Hou Mei Asian cafe is available round the clock.
The Sheffield casino is the first in Britain to feature Malaysia-headquartered Genting’s Hou Mei brand, already in use in Asia.
And, with an employee roster of more than 150, Genting Club Sheffield is also the first casino that Britain’s largest operator has opened in Yorkshire.
Casino hotels switch on to interactive TV service
LodgeNet says it’s now rolling out to 15,000 guest rooms across the US
LodgeNet Interactive says it has already signed contracts covering more than 15,000 rooms for its Envision interactive TV product following its decision to target the casino hotel market. Six gaming locations are currently being outfitted with Envision: the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino (1623 rooms) in Reno; the Colorado Belle Resort (1164 rooms) and Edgewater Casino Resort (1053 rooms), both in Laughlin, Nevada; Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York (605 rooms); the Isle of Capri Casino Hotel Lake Charles in Westlake, Louisiana (493 rooms); and the Seneca Allegany Casino & Hotel in Salamanca, New York (413 rooms). “Owners and operators in the gaming space are catching the vision of how the Envision platform and apps can improve their bottom line and enhance the total destination experience – especially when integrated with our LodgeNet Mobile App,” said Rich Battista, President and CEO of LodgeNet. “Whether it’s promoting on-site events, extracting
more revenue from their guest rooms or helping guests enjoy all the events and amenities the property has to offer, gaming operators can use Envision to cross the boundaries of space and time in delivering the information and services their guests want, when they want it – through whatever screen they are watching at the time.” Worldwide, LodgeNet serves around 1.6m hotel
rooms. 6 NOVEMBER 2012
GLI puts compliance data into the cloud
New tool will let operators and regulators efficiently check the status of machines
Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) is now beta- testing GLiCloud, a service that lets online and land- based operators as well as regulators track their inventory of technology and games, and cross-refer it with data on regulatory compliance. For example, if a certain machine model is present on a slot floor, GLiCloud will let users access the GLI database to determine which components that machine uses and whether they have been approved by the relevant territory’s regulator. Because it is cloud-based, it is accessible from any computing device and also from mobile handsets using the GLI Mobile service. “Regulators around the world came to us asking if we could develop a way to help them track the enormous number of products on their floor, with a simple solution that taps into our global database so that the information is always up-to-date, accurate and in real time,” said GLI President and CEO James Maida.
“GLiCloud delivers on that promise, and because it links to our new GLI Mobile, regulators now have the power of a global database in the palm of their hand.” GLI says the new technology will save operators and
regulators time and money in evaluating the compliance of slot floors, as well as eliminating the risk of human error.
After testing is complete, the full release of GLiCloud is expected within six months.
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