The “Asia Lottery Expo and Forum” is set to debut at Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia 2018, the next edition of a casino industry trade show and exhibition held annually in Macau in May. The new three-day sub-event covering lottery product displays as well as a conference element is being marketed as a “business, learning and networking platform” for lottery industry professionals, according to a press release from G2E Asia’s organizers.
The forum will debut May 15-17. The three-day event follows the success of the Asia Lottery Forum and 7th China Lottery Industry Salon, which attracted more than 700 lottery professionals to the event in 2017.
The launch of the multi-faceted Asia Lottery Expo & Forum aims to deliver a business, learning and networking platform exclusively designed for lottery professionals, and provide an opportunity for technology and solution providers to showcase their current and upcoming game designs, platforms, systems, capabilities and innovations, while meeting and exploring collaboration prospects with fellow lottery operators in Asia.
“The Asia Lottery Forum is an annual, not-to-be-missed event,” said Professor Su Guojing, renowned lottery expert and founder of the China Lottery Industry Salon. “The China Lottery Industry Salon and Asian Responsible Gaming Alliance are honored to have co-hosted the Asia Lottery Forum with G2E Asia in 2017. As the secretary general of sub-committee for lottery major under the National Teaching Instruction Committee of Civil Affairs Vocational Education, I am also very pleased to have the opportunity to work with the organizer.
“We invited industry experts, academics and professionals from across Asia and created a unique opportunity for them. The participants exchanged ideas, learned from each other, and explored how to better promote the healthy and sustainable development of Asia’s lottery industry. This marks a new stage for regional lottery cooperation and development. We look forward to even greater success at Asia Lottery Expo & Forum 2018.”
Asia-Pacific’s lottery industry reported total sales of $107.7 billion in 2016, according to the World Lottery Association. The August 2017 edition of WLA Magazine additionally reported global lottery sales up by 0.9 percent in the first quarter of 2017, with sales in Africa, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region soaring by 9.4 percent, 5.8 percent and 5.4 percent, respectively.
While mainland China registered cumulative lottery sales of $52.7 billion in the first ten months of 2017, at a year-on-year growth of $3.8 billion (7.7 percent), including welfare lottery sales of $26.8 billion and sports lottery sales of $25.9 billion, at a year-on-year increase of $1.3 billion (4.9 percent) and $2.5 billion (10.7 percent), respectively.
Zhengming Pan, CEO of 500.com, added, “The Asia Lottery Forum is our must-attend annual industry event. Particularly, at the last forum, the speakers provided masses of professional information and unique analyses, and the atmosphere was wonderful. This is a valuable opportunity for us. Here we can communicate with lottery experts and explore the future of the industry with them.”
