Contents June 2017
SOUTH AMERICA BRAZIL P8
Las Vegas Sands Chairman meets with the mayor of Rio de Janeiro Marcelo Crivella to discuss a new government programme
Samson House, Manchester Road, Manchester M29 7BR, United Kingdom
MEXICO P10 A bid to raise over one billion pesos in new
taxes is proving spectacularly unsuccessful, raising only 2.13 per cent of the total in Q1
BOLIVIA P12 Te National Director in control of gaming
has announced that the country is looking to regulate the country’s online gaming sector
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NORTH AMERICA US P20
Operating income of $477m at the MGM's
domestic resorts, represented a 31 per cent increase over the prior year quarter
CANADA P22
Hard Rock Casino Ottawa will take over day- to-day operations at the Rideau Carleton Raceway towards the end of 2017
BAHAMAS P23
Te long gestating Baha Mar resort opened to words of great positivity from Te Bahamas Prime Minister, Perry Christie
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Insight EDC 2017
Hippodrome hosts ‘best ever’ ECA Dealer Championship Insight P28 Organised by the ECA and NCF, the 2017 championships took place in the heart of London’s capital, a first in the competition’s 11-year history.
Te Top 5 Hottest Tech Solutions - CMS Insight P30 G3 asked five of the world’s leading independent systems experts to describe one piece of outstanding systems technology everyone should know about
Advanced computing enhances casino gaming Insight P50 In an exclusive article for G3, AMD’s Colin Cureton discusses the immersive technologies; virtual reality, augemented reality and machine learning
Reports Bulgaria
A gaming tour of Sofia - from the inside out Reports P60 Accepting an invitation to revisit the gaming halls of Sofia in the wake of the latest Gaming Act, we discover a market unrecognisable from the past
ASIA & OCEANIA
NEW ZEALAND P24 Te New Zealand Racing Board has selected
OpenBet and Paddy Power Betfair to deliver the technology solution for FOBTs
CHINA P26 Crown Resorts has now completely exited the
Macau casino sector, selling off its remaining shares in Melco Crown Entertainment
CHINA P27 Results continue to improve for casino
operations in Macau, despite the increased competition from new resort openings
EMEA
FRANCE P14 Te French Ministry of Interior defines a three-
year experiment to allow gaming clubs to operate in the city of Paris
AUSTRIA P16 Admiral Arena Prater opened on May 1
following six months of conversion work to become the largest sports bar in Europe
AUSTRIA P18 Alexander Labak, is to be appointed to the
Management Board of Casinos Austria and will take over the functions of Director General
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