Queensland Backing Off Casino Development?

With a new Labor government in power, official enthusiasm could be waning for a quartet of megaresorts planned for Queensland, including Echo Entertainment’s proposed Brisbane casino (l.). Chinese-backed investors...

Published April 20, 2015

Canada’s Baccarat Casino to Move Next Door

The Baccarat Casino in Edmonton, Alberta will move to a new larger location adjacent to the existing building. When the new $32 million casino is complete in summer 2016,...

Published April 20, 2015

Report: Aussie Market Could Hit $6.2 Billion

Market research firm IBISWorld says the Australian gaming market could be work $6.2 billion by 2020. The continent will add three new casinos in the coming years, hoping to...

Published April 20, 2015

Vietnam Rolls the Dice

The Vietnamese government is doubling down on casinos to help grow the country’s tourism industry and compete with other Asian gaming destinations. Next up is a casino resort planned...

Published April 20, 2015

Tsogo Makes Play for Sun International

Hotel casino operator Tsogo Sun is battling Capetown, South Africa’s Competition Commission for the right to acquire 40 percent of two casinos, including the GrandWest (l.), owned by its...

Published April 20, 2015

In Russia, Ho a No-Go

Lawrence Ho’s long-stalled casino project in Russia’s Primorye gambling zone has been delayed yet again. Now officials with First Gambling Company of the East say the $700 million resort...

Published April 13, 2015

Sri Lanka Institutes Casino Entry Fee

Sri Lanka has amended its Betting and Gaming Levy Act to include a US$100 entry fee for every person who enters a casino in the country, including the “StarDust”...

Published April 13, 2015

Turks and Caicos OKs Casino

The government of the Turks and Caicos islands has signed a development agreement with Desarrollos Hotel Group to build a $224 million hotel, resort, casino and spa project in...

Published April 13, 2015

Jamaica Tourism Up 7 Percent

Jamaican Minister of Tourism and Entertainment Wykeham McNeill says tourism is leading the country’s economic recovery. More than 3 million people visited the island nation in 2014, contributing more...

Published April 13, 2015

Baha Mar Puts the Brakes on Bahamas

The planned April 3 soft opening of a $3.5 billion hotel casino in the Bahamas was delayed due to a dispute with the lead contractor. Baha Mar has announced...

Published April 6, 2015

B.C. Lottery Corporation Under Fire

One gaming company in British Columbia, Canada is claiming the B.C. Lottery Corporation has been taking money unjustly over the past five years, after an agreement where they were...

Published April 6, 2015

Sun International Buys Competitor Peermont

Sun International Ltd. Will purchase competitor Peermont Global for $768 million. Johannesburg-based Sun is South Africa’s biggest hotel and casino operator with 27 resorts across Africa and the Americas....

Published March 30, 2015

Casino Debate Re-Opens in Toronto

Toronto is again looking to change is fortune through casino expansion. A proposal to expand the racino offerings at the Woodbine racetrack (l.) has been met with sharp criticism...

Published March 30, 2015

No More Dreams in Dominican

After reports surfaced linking owner Michael DeGroote to illegal activities, the Dreams Corporation will close all operations in the Dominican Republic and Jamaica.

Published March 30, 2015

BC Town Unclear Future of Casino Cash

The city of Richmond, British Columbia has been scrutinized lately by the local council regarding revenue spending. The city budgets $15 million a year from revenue brought in through...

Published March 30, 2015

Ho: No Marianas Deal

Melco Crown CEO Lawrence Ho has officially refuted rumors that he plans to work with Chinese Strategic Holdings on a hotel project in the Northern Mariana Islands. The talk...

Published March 23, 2015

Crown Raising Millions for New Projects

Australia-based casino giant Crown Resorts Ltd. will sell subordinated notes to finance expansion projects. The company hopes to raise AUD400 million (US$305 million) with the sale. The notes will...

Published March 23, 2015

Dominican Republic Might Get Tamed

The Dominican Republic has recently introduced a bill that would provide a bit more oversight to a gambling industry, which, while thriving, currently operates with little to no supervision.

Published March 23, 2015

Would You Pay $100M for an Apartment?

A penthouse in James Packer’s new $2 billion Barangaroo hotel-casino complex in Sydney Harbor could cost almost $100 million, according to reports. Packer’s Crown Resorts has proposed that 30...

Published March 23, 2015

Echo Entertainment on the Move

Australian gaming operator Echo Entertainment Group may move its headquarters from Sydney to Brisbane if the Queensland government OKs its bid to build a multimillion-dollar casino resort (l.) at...

Published March 16, 2015