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Video Lottery Terminals
Italy’s market has now matured, and faces a change in legislation to AWP machines – what might this mean for the VLT market? And just what is it about VLTs that makes them so attractive to government?
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t’s been three years since Video Lottery Terminals [VLTs] entered the Italian market. That time has seen the country’s gaming market become something of
a blueprint for other countries and governments considering the many benefits of shifting to this streamlined, efficient gaming model. The benefits are many – fresher gaming content for customers, which is frequently refreshed; for the operator and regulators, the taxation and back office reporting is simple and
efficient, and for the government, it makes cheating those taxes that much harder. So Italy’s market has settled down, but what does that mean for the future of
gaming in the country? At the recent ENADA show, we saw a downturn in visitor numbers and a flat atmosphere which could only really be attributed to one thing – pending legislation change to Comma 6a products. It’s one thing for a
26 APRIL 2013
THE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF THE AMUSEMENT AND STREET GAMING INDUSTRY
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