Reports SPAIN MARKET REPORT
Betting is big business in Spain and growing. The number of betting locations has doubled over the last few years from 475 in 2019 to just over 800 in 2021. Landbased betting saw a GGR of almost €300m in 2021 whilst online betting saw €28.4m. At the end of last year Stanley Bet obtained a licence to open operations in Andalucia, its first entry into the Spanish market. The company began the licensing procedure in 2019, but Covid caused delays.
biggest share with €4.4bn, other landbased gambling with €3.9bn and online gambling was responsible for €825m of this.
Total sales amounted to €10.9bn for the lotteries, €12.6bn for landbased gambling and just over €3bn for the online sector.
Te pandemic saw revenues in 2020 slump with an overall 33 per cent drop that year, however although the landbased sector saw a drop of 37 per cent in revenues the online sector increased by more than 13 per cent during 2020.
Te largest chunk of revenue within the landbased gaming sector comes from slots in the hospitality sector followed by slots in gaming arcades.
Tere are around 182,000 slots (type B) in the market in total of which 140,000 (77 per cent) approximately are located in more than 103,000 ‘hostelería’ locations (bars, cafes and restaurants), around 38,000 in 3,800 gaming halls, 2,290 across the 322 bingo halls and 350 in 800 betting shops.
Gaming halls saw a total GGR in 2021 of €802m and more than €2.67bn gambled. Te hospitality sector saw a GGR of €2.25bn.
Te slot hall sector has been struggling since Covid restrictions caused venues to close. Now with the rise in electricity and fuel prices, sites are feeling the financial pressure with many closing down across the country.
ANESAR, the Spanish Association of Gaming Halls, claimed the turnover in 2021 was 18 per cent below pre-pandemic levels. Almost 40 gaming halls and betting shops have closed in the Balearic Islands whilst the private landbased sector in the region of Navarra saw €120m less spent on gambling in 2021 than in 2019.
On the plus side the gaming hall sector is seeing some changes resulting in small victories. In March this year the Superior Court of Justice of Andalucia (TSJA) ruled in favour of gaming operators in Cadiz and annulled a modification the city council had approved in 2020 prohibiting venues from being less than 500 metres from schools, sports centres or socio- cultural centres.
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