Government Initiates Infrastructure Tender EMEA
Te Government of Catalonia has launched the tender for the first contract for the leisure and entertainment complex casino formerly known as BCN World. Te contract is for road access plans to the new complex.
Te name change for BCN World to the anodyne Tourist and Recreation Complex, appears to have kick-started the development process
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SLOVENIA – Merkur Gaming has appointed Intergames as its distributor for Slovenia, San Marino as well as for the Italian and Maltese casino markets.
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Te Government of Catalonia has launched the tender for the first contract for the leisure and entertainment complex casino formerly known as BCN World. Te contract is for road access plans to the new complex. Public company the Catalan Land Institute (Incasòl), which owns the land where the resort will be built, has tendered the studies to construct the accesses to the newly established Tourist and Recreation Complex (CRT) as the project in Vila-seca as Salou is now provisionally known.
Te contact is worth €229,000 and the winning company has six months in which to draft the new plans. Interested companies may present their respective offers at the beginning of next month according to a notice put up by the Incasòl website.
Te issue of access is complex and has caused some controversy as traffic is expected to be extremely heavy in the area due to the fact that amusement park PortAventura already attracts 4 million visitors and will soon expand further with the addition of Ferrari Land, which will
JCM to Supply Ticket2Go Solution to 150 Talarius Sites
UK
JCM Global has signed a contract to supply its leading Ticket2Go solution to more than 150 Talarius sites in the UK Talarius, which was recently acquired by Novomatic, is one of the largest AGC operators in the U.K. and JCM’s Ticket2Go will offer a safe, secure and easy to use after-market ticketing solution.
JCM’s Ticket2Go is a retrofit ticketing solution for gaming and AWP devices that do not support standard ticketing protocols. Ticket2Go is designed and developed for small to medium-sized gaming venues, and it can be installed across multiple sites, enabling operators to replace coin payout technology with a simple ticket-based solution.
“We are excited to deploy our Ticket2Go solution to Talarius sites. TITO provides a streamlined collection process which totally eradicates the need to float and dump hoppers, vastly improving the on floor collection times, it also reduces service costs and machine down time by reducing the coin handling issues associated with Gaming machines,” JCM EMEA General Manager Payam Zadeh said. “Additionally, Ticket2Go has been proven to increase cash box intake by more than 10 percent, while also providing increased player convenience and satisfaction. Furthermore, operators typically experience savings due to reduced collection times, no filling of coin hoppers and less handling of cash.”
open in April. Te €100m addition will attract another million visitors to the park according to current estimates. Te CRT complex will be situated on land near the park.
Te Urban-Development Master Plan (PDU) for the Tourist and Recreation Complex was approved in December. Josep Rull Minister of Territory and Sustainability said that the new plan had been approved after a six month public consultation period and that a number of important changes had been made when it came to infrastructure as well as the protection of the environment. Work on the complex will begin in the summer of this year. Te new project will be far less ambitious than envisaged and will house less casinos and hotels than previously announced. However, according to President of Catalonia Oriol Junqueras a total of €2.5bn will be invested in the project which will create 10 thousand jobs. Gaming space, however, will be reduced drastically to just 4 per cent of the total space of the new project. However, the new complex is expected to have a profound impact on the area.
Italy
Åland-based company Paf has sold Italian Winga in its entirety to Maltese-Swedish gaming company LeoVegas. - Te Italian market is not aligned with Paf’s future strategy. We received a generous offer from the buyer, and the time was right to sell, says Paf CEO Christer Fahlstedt. Te transaction does not mean that Paf is lowering its ambitions when it comes to growing internationally. - We aim to grow primarily in markets that we know thoroughly as well as markets where Paf can be expected to become profitable in the long term, Christer Fahlstedt says. Paf bought Winga in January 2015 from Buongiorno SpA, a part of the DOCOMO business group. Winga has its main offices in Milan. Te organisation offers clients a complete range of gaming products. Roughly one half of Winga’s profit is generated from live-studio casino games and from its live casino product broadcasted on the Italian television network and Sky TV
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