Is The Future Bright? Is The Future Online?
7th January, 2009
The time has come it would seem, in the technology filled world that we live in, some would say it is inevitable that everything will one day reside online. These somewhat depressing thoughts come after reports yesterday stated that even the momentous Las Vegas Strip Casinos have decided that the only way they might recoup the fall in revenue’s, is to explore online gambling.
During these hard financial times fewer and fewer people seem to be visiting Las Vegas, leaving even less gambling in their casinos. Unfortunately meaning casino owners believe the only cure is to bring the gambling to the customers, right in the own homes.
Currently however US laws forbid online gambling, which many casinos first supported, although now many are seeing the opportunity and lifeline online casinos may offer.
“Having legal online gaming would really help the strip casinos with their marketing. It would help them find out who’s gambling out there.” Said David Schwartz with UNLV’s Centre for Gaming Research.
Online casinos have supplied punters with the same variety of games found in most tradition casino’s plus sports betting, poker and even bingo since the 1990’s. The simplicity of the casino being only a click away would greatly expand many strip casinos reach.
The likes of MGM and Harrah would be open to, and able to reach a new audience of gamblers, with the laws changed existing strip casinos would likely be licensed before foreign based sites.
The fear is then, that with so many land based casinos opting to go online, will casinos then go in the way of bingo halls, and slowly deplete as numbers dwindle and online takes preference.
By Rommon
