Positive Signs for Salou and Vila-seca
Te Government of Catalonia will soon complete the processes related to the start of the Salou and Vila-seca project.
Te Hard Rock complex will include two hotels with over a thousand rooms, a large shopping area, alongside entertainment facilities and a casino.
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GERMANY - Germany’s gaming chair specialists; Patir Design, made a bold statement at ICE 2023, returning to the show with the company’s biggest ever stand. Filled with luxuriously appointed seating solutions, Patir Design’s Dennys Patir applauded the return of the London show after three years and celebrated the event with a range of new chair designs.
“We have been working with several new slots partners on a range of bespoke custom-made VIP seating solutions, including new technical features” described Dennys at ICE.
“We have also brought to ICE 2023 a new chair line that we’ve developed for a major European casino. It is a completely new concept featuring improved comfort and easy movability, making it practical to handle for both maintenance staff and patrons within the casino.”
Patir Design has reported strong customer interest and orders in 2022 through to the start of this year, with initial enquiries matching pre-pandemic levels and raising prospects for an exceptional year ahead for the business.
UK – BetConstruct presented one of the largest and most technically sophisticated and impressive stands at ICE 2023. During the international expo, the company showcased the set of its solutions under the concept of Resonance, infused with BetConstruct’s ideology of the ‘constant movement, vibration, and wave of innovation’.
Under the slogan Our Magnitude Is Your Advantage, focusing on creating authentic, trustworthy cooperations and providing meticulously tailored products for its partners. BetConstruct flew to Excel London, endorsing Fastex, the ecosystem that offers a wide range of centralised and decentralised solutions.
“It goes without saying that ICE 2023 was a massive success for the company with its appealing stand and individual approach for all visitors,” a BetConstruct spokesperson added.
UK – Standards body the Betting and Gaming Council has congratulated Lucy Frazer MP on becoming the new Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and urged her to publish the Gambling White Paper without delay.
BGC chief executive Michael Dugher welcomed her appointment to Cabinet on behalf of the 110,000 people whose jobs rely on the regulated betting and gaming industry. As part of the reshuffle, Julia Lopez MP and Stuart Andrew MP remain as ministers in the department.
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Te Government of Catalonia has signed an agreement for its budget in which it announced that it would evaluate “completing the processes related to the start of the Salou and Vila-seca Recreational and Tourist Consortium project” during the first semester of 2023.
Te Government of Pere Aragonès and the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC) reached an agreement that allows the approval of the government’s budget for this year. Te agreement consists of two documents: one 26 page document covers the budgetary measures while another three page document includes the commitments to promote “major infrastructure of the country” that the PSC put forward as a condition for their approval of the budget. Tese include the Hard Rock project as well as other major infrastructure projects which will lead to jobs.
According to the document, the Vila-seca and Salou project will go ahead “after final approval of the Urban Development Plan”. In addition, the government laid out its plans to “maintain the availability of the land by the company, as a step prior to the evolution of the project.”
Salvador Illa, First Secretary of the PSC is one of the main supporters of the project since the party expects it to generate “more than a billion euros of investment and more than 13,000 jobs, generating consensus between the social and economic agents, and the municipalities of the area.”
Te Hard Rock Entertainment World complex will include two hotels with over a thousand rooms, a large shopping area, along with entertainment facilities, and the casino. Te casino could have as many as 1,200 slot machines and 100 table games making it one of the largest casinos in Europe. Te casino will be called Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tarragona, España.
In May 2018, the Government of Catalonia declared that it had given Hard Rock Entertainment World permission to build a casino and leisure complex in the southern towns of Vila-seca and Salou. However, the project has been beset by problems most notably over planning permission. Te two local municipalities are also unable to agree on how taxes from the new resort will be divided.
France Bagnères-de-Luchon to reopen in 2024/25
Bagnères-de-Luchon wants to reopen its casino in 2024 or 2025. Te municipality of Bagnères-de- Luchon, in the French region of Haute-Garonne, has launched a sourcing procedure for casino operators interested in reopening the casino there, which has been shut since 2011.
Tis phase of preliminary exchanges takes place before a public service delegation procedure (DSP), which will then entrust the construction and operation of the establishment to a private operator.
Gilles Toniolo, first deputy mayor of Luchon, said: “Te reopening of the casino is one of the primary concerns of the Luchonnais, after their health. It is part of the splendor and renewal of Luchon. We waited to award the operation of the thermal baths to the Arenadour group on January 1, 2023 to fully embark on the reopening of the casino, which
belongs to the heritage of Luchon.”
“We would like to carry out a deliberation as to the awarding of the concession notice in the second quarter of 2023. And we are planning to start operating the casino in 2024, or 2025 at the latest. Te casino will be located in the original location, which is historic, emblematic and of definite architectural interest. Tis place is spacious and beautiful. It is obvious to us. In addition, the volumes of the place make it possible to reopen the casino, theatre, seminar rooms and catering area.
After the closure of the casino in 2011, the operator having been put into liquidation, and then an unsuccessful takeover, the municipality thought it had found a new operator in June 2016 after signing an 18-year public service delegation with the French company of casinos (SFC), who later withdrew from the project.
UK
Genting UK has closed down its casino at Te Cornerhouse in Nottingham, due to ‘commercial considerations’ following consultation with staff. Te process lasted for 30 days before ultimately coming to the decision to close the Nottingham casino due to commercial considerations.
Casino members were sent a text message telling them the casino was now permanently shut but that points they’d accrued would be valid at all other Genting Casinos. Genting was one of the first tenants at Te Cornerhouse, which boasts restaurants, bars, a Cineworld and Te Lost City Adventure Golf.
Last year, Genting acquired three casinos from Casino 36 UK Limited in Wolverhampton, Dudley and Stockport which are in the process of being rebranded.
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