G3-247 Report ESTONIA MARKET REPORT
gaming hall in Tallinn and over the next few years a fur- ther 22 gaming halls opened in the city. In 2005 the company began to expand outside of the city and opened its Parnu casino. Today CityCasino has five gaming halls, four of which are in Tallinn:
l COCA COLA PLAZAin Tallinn city centre which has 26 slots mainly from IGT and Admiral. There is a 24 hour bar.
l MARJACityCasino in Mustamae, Tallinn has 40 slots and is located in a large 220 sq.m hall.
l CITYCASINO PAE in Tallinn has 40 slots and is located in Lasnamagi shopping mall.
l MUSTAKIVI has 26 slots and is located in Lasnamae Centrum.
l PARNUCityCasino has 30 slots near the big shop- ping centre in Estonia’s summer capital of Parnu.
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THE SECTORS ONLINE
Online gambling has been legal since 2010 and was in part introduced to help Estonia’s flailing economy dur- ing the global recession.
The government gave Estonian gamblers the chance to play online but only at licensed sites and only by sites operated by local companies. In 2011 they opened the market to offshore operators with the condition that licences are obtained from the Estonian authority. Any other illegal sites were blocked.
Operators must obtain two types of licences – the Activity licence which certifies the applicant who wants to operate an online business and the Operating Licence/Permit which is obtained before organising a specific type of gambling such as lotteries, totalisators, slots or tables. Applications are made to the Tax and Customs Board and licences are issued for five years. The rule that online gambling sites be hosted by an
01 Estonia is known for being one of the most interconnected countries, when it comes to Internet connections. Most of the population has access to the Internet at home, and if not, they probably use it at school. This has led to the creation of a new program, intended to start teaching children the skills necessary for programming while they are still in the first grade, with the foundations they will need being taught at a very early age. This can-do approach to education has been very successful for Estonia, considering they have one of the highest literacy rates in the world. For Estonian adults, the literacy rate is just shy of 100 per cent.
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