Gran Scala

Full information that content Official statistics wich become part of the Statistical Plan Nacional in Spain.

This report is gathered from three major blocs, according to their type of Management:

- Regional gaming, managed by private companies with prior authorization from the Autonomous Communities (casinos, bingo, gaming machines, lotteries, sweepstakes and combinations random).
- Those of other state management entrusted to the entity Public Lotteries and Gambling business of the state (sp. LAE: Loterías y Apuestas del Estado) relating to lotteries, football pools and Primitives in its different forms.

- Others managed under special authorization by the National Organization of Blind Spaniards (ONCE).

There are many other games developed in local areas heavily restricted, where bets are accepted at specified times of the year and others of a minority as practiced in the gables or dog tracks, which are not included in this study for lack of sufficient information, but for those who can assert that its amount he economy is very limited and almost negligible compared to the previous ones.

Gaming Report’s Sources used

Autonomous communities have assumed responsibility for compiling and develop data on their area of competence and make them available this Department for their coordination and final submission, as well as the public company, Lotteries and Gambling State, the National Organization of Blind Spaniards, and other companies or private institutions that have worked providing the required information in each case.

• a) Data from the private gaming: 1. Councils in charge of the game in the Autonomous Communities that Pursuant to the royal decrees of devolution of power, provided the requested data.

1. Control Service of Gaming Directorate-General of Police and the Guardia Civil.

• b) Data from the state-owned company and of the National Organization of Blind.

1. Public Corporate Entity of state Lotteries and Gambling (LAE)
2. National Organization of Blind Spaniards (ONCE).

Spanish betting & gambling by the numbers

Spaniards spent over €30bn on gambling services in 2007. Gaming machines were the key drivers of the 4 percent year-on-year growth, as traditional bingo games continued their decline.The total of €30.1bn in Spanish gambling expenditure represented a 4.1 percent on the previous year, while ross gaming revenues of €9.85bn for Spain’s gambling industry showed a 5.6 percent increase on 2006. The Madrid region continues to be Spain’s most significant gambling market, both in terms of overall spend and gambling spend per capita. Madrid was followed, in order, by Murcia, Valencia and the Balearic Isles.

Private sector rose to a 61 percent share from 59 percent 2006.
Total amount wagereds (millions): Casinos 2.459,62
Bingos 3.694,18
Gaming slots machines: 10.938,60
TOTAL PRIVATE GAMBLING: 17.092,40

Lottery sales for state-owned company Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (LAE) saw a 3.5 percent increase.
Total amount wagereds (millions): Lotería Nacional 5.452,53
Lotería Primitiva 2.202,30
Bono Loto 600,39
Quiniela 479,48
Euromillón 906,65
. TOTAL PUBLIC LOTTERY: 9.641,35

Charity lottery ONCE has 1 percent rise in overall turnover. TOTAL CUPON O.N.C.E.: 2.142, 69 millions

The evolution of the Private sector growth with respect to the previous year, 2006 was the following:

- Casinos increased its sales by 3.7%, having been opening a new casino in the Huesca region last July helped to account for a 4 percent rise in the overall number of visitors to Spain’s 42 casinos. Casinos welcomed 3.8m visitors last year as casino turnover grew 3.7 percent to €2.459,62bn .
Total gross gaming revenues of the casino sector is €557m.

- The volume of gaming in bingo, drops 0.89%, 3.63% lower than the year past, despite having 18 fewer rooms in operation. Spanish bingo halls witnessed a 3 percent drop in gross revenues during 2007 falling to €1.36bn from €1.4bn in 2006. Despite this, the 0.8 percent drop in overall bingo expenditure of €3.694,18bn was significantly less than the decline of nearly 4 percent recorded between 2005 and 2006.

- Gaming slots machines category “B” increase their volume of 15.43% stake, up from 1.95% 2006. In despite of its growth by 3,225 last year to surpass the quarter-of-a-million mark, this increase is due to the fact that many of the Autonomous Communities regulate Returns awards in excess of 70% or other, when it was previously set at 75% used in this work because of a lack of accurate information, and coexisting more machines of both types in many region.