We probably didn’t have to reach out to such a wide variety of experts to predict that 2009 will be "a challenge" for the gaming industry. But the details of just how the year will impact the industry—where the challenges will be greatest and where the opportunities for growth will appear—are of the sort that only our survey participants could provide.
Server-based gaming is all the rage! Server-based gaming will change the way we operate our casino floors! Server-based gaming is the future! Say any of these phrases—or the hundreds like them—and most gaming industry executives will roll their eyes, contort their face and make a mad dash for the door. And who can blame them?
Server-Based Gaming: A system that provides for the high-speed delivery of game content, game configurations, and direct player marketing. The downloaded game content is played on the machine and the result is determined by the machine. The system may also allow for the downloading of software updates, such as customer notifications.
There are a lot of smart business practices that you surely should adopt if you haven’t already: Foster positive attitudes from the top on down. Keep inter- and intra-departmental lines of communication open and productive. Leverage diversity and departmental synergy to inspire innovation. Create a sustainable competitive advantage by continually developing new and existing resources and capabilities in response to changing market conditions.
In Canada, a survey by CGA revealed that approximately 12 percent of the population is opposed to gambling. Balancing gaming growth with anti-gaming public policy has long been the bane of government-owned casinos in Canada. But taking a cue from Vegas, neighbors to the north are rolling out the red carpet to roll in the dough.
In 2007 more than 18 million tourists visited the Caribbean. Yet of the top five most heavily visited Caribbean destinations, only one, the Bahamas, has full-scale, American-style casinos. The "casino question" has long been asked by the tourist Meccas that make up the Caribbean islands, usually with the same answer. But with new actions from two jusisdictions, all those no's may soon be nods.
A new partnership between Gaming Laboratories International and Mexico's Normalización y Certificación Electrónica is poised to launch gaming certification in this once-murky market into the trustworthy stratosphere. Representatives from both organizations sat down in a round-table Q&A to discuss the venture.
In this buyer’s guide for expert advice, you’ll find out just where to go when you don’t know. From marketing consultants to game protection consultants, from construction firms to former regulators, this group of gaming experts can help you overcome virtually any hurdle.
Access, insight, input, education, opportunity—whatever the reason for joining ranks, these operators agree that you can’t put a price on membership in the Gaming Standards Association. In the following, we’re focusing on five operator members of GSA—Ameristar Casinos Inc., MGM MIRAGE, MotorCity Casino, Penn National Gaming Inc. and Seminole Gaming.
If you attended the Great Women of Gaming Conference 2007 at the Green Valley Ranch Resort, Casino & Spa in Las Vegas, you know what it feels like to be in the midst of some of our industry’s most driven and successful female leaders. That feeling cannot be duplicated, but we tried our darndest to do it in the pages of this article by presenting a snapshot of the event and the 10 incredibly sharp award winners.
