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EXTRAVAGANT
ONE
For Casinos, places where people try their luck and some make fortune big enough to last 2
lifetimes. Casino in itself has always been a nefarious and a controversial word. “
But today it is a booming industry with not only gaming as its main focus but hospitality and
service at its core
Turn the pages to see how big the industry is and how they market and promise the experience
of a lifetime!
Casinos are
here to
Stay Casino Industry:Revenue (Billion USD)
200
182.77
180 171.04
Casino 159.71
Marketing 160
146.68
140 132.41
117.58
Casino 120 107.69 109.73 107.31
99.98
Industry 100
Attractiveness
80
60
Taking the
40
Casinos
Online 20
0
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
The Movie
Timeline India’s Education budget was 10.73 billion USD and the casino industry made
about 182.77 billion USD
Best
of the
Best Now if we look at what the industry makes in a year, you might be surprized on how things are
in the world and what they ought to be. The 2015 revenue of the casino world was 182.77 billion
USD. That is far greater than GDP of many nations.
The key success factors that should be considered in the casino and gaming industry include innovation in
products and services and the ability of the casino companies to reach for affluent populations. Both these
aspects go hand in hand as innovation is required to beat off stiff competition. This would be done through
building loyalty amongst the affluent population which itself is attracted to innovation in various areas.
• United States
ECONOMIC
POLITICAL
SOCIAL
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has engages in influences the demand Americans towards
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regulations because Casinos provided support
that open up usually have hotels. for the growth of
the industry, the industry.
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impacts casino
purpose of performance because • Current emphasis
improving its the attractiveness of on treating casino
the locations of gaming as addiction
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estate value of such openness to the
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LEGAL
ENVIRONMENTAL
TECHNOLOGICAL
The customers are attracted to the number of innovative entertainment characteristics of casino companies giving diverse
kinds of experiences. These companies are involved in aggressive marketing techniques corresponding to magic shows,
stage performances and innovative entertainment programmes to attract all types of customers to stay at the casino
hotels and spend their money on the casino floor ensuring the customers stay for as long as possible.
Year Event
Harry Ogden became the 1st person to make a profit over his income from bookmaking. He
1790 had a view of the winners by operating from Newmarket Heath and studied the field, laying
odds on each horse rather than two propositions.
All types of gambling became constrained to the racetrack due to a law that restricted public
games of cards with money at stake. This spurred the so called bookies which operate from
1845 their brick and mortar locations to open up the market to other sports rather than just the
races. Bookmakers simply used a pen and paper, frequenting markets or backstreets before
moving into shops.
Betting shops were legalized in May and a staggering 10,000 shops opened within the first 6
months. The betting shop would contain a bookie behind the counter studying the pages as
1961 well as someone who was called a ‘Board-Man’ who actually marked up results and prices for
the various races that came from information transmitted through a wire service from Extel
and vocalized by the blower.
The then technology in betting stores evolved when a number of more gambling legislation
1986 allowed all the shops to show the races in the television sets. ‘Fruit machines’ or fixed-odds
betting terminals and computer generated racing courses were also added.
This was the time when the internet was in full swing, bookmaking firms realised the scope of
1998 earning huge amounts of money from online betting. Betting exchanges like Betfair and
Betdaq opened and the launch of online bingo and poker sites began.
2012 Revenue from online gambling was estimated at $4 billion – an 80% increase from 2008
2015 At the end of the year the online gambling industry was estimated to be worth $41.4bn.
Movie Name:
OCEAN’S ELEVEN (2001)
Casinos Featured:
Bellagio
MGM Grand
Movie Name:
ROCKY BALBOA (2006)
Casinos Featured:
Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
Movie Name:
IRON MAN (2008)
Casinos Featured:
Caesars Palace
Movie Name:
THE HANGOVER (2009)
Casinos Featured:
Riviera Hotel and Casino
Caesars Palace
Movie Name:
NOW YOU SEE ME (2013)
Casinos Featured:
MGM Grand
Movie Name:
JASON BOURNE (2016)
Casinos Featured:
Aria Resort and Casino
Key Features:
Key Features:
Complex of 6 individual casinos
Resort covering over 9,000,000 sq ft of area.
Around 350,000 square feet of gambling space
Over 375 gaming tables and 4700 slot machines
Bingo Hall housing upto 5,000 players easily
Key Features:
In the UK, one of the biggest online casino wins came from a 20p spin. A fisherman who
wished to remain anonymous started playing a slot game called the Hall of Gods and
watched his 20p turn into a massive £5.4 million win.
Richard Nixon funded his first congress campaign using the money he’d won playing poker
with some of his former Navy colleagues. The $6,000 he won at the poker table helped him
on his way to his first political post.
When Annette Obrestad from Norway won the first World Series of Poker Europe main
event in 2007, she was a day off her nineteenth birthday. She remains the youngest person
to have ever won a WSOP bracelet.
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