Spaniards spent over €30bn on gambling services
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.
- 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.
- Public Corporate Entity of state Lotteries and Gambling (LAE)
- National Organization of Blind Spaniards (ONCE).
Enrique Múgica will conduct a Gran Scala survey
The Spain’s Ombudsman, Enrique Múgica, will conduct a survey of macro complex ‘Gran Scala’ after receiving a request to this effect from platform Stop Gran Scala. Múgica has sent a letter to the group in which he has reportedly admitted its complaint, which was sent in early March.
‘Stop Gran Scala’ recalled that they sent a complaint to the Commission reporting and complainting, among other things, the attitude taken by the Government of Aragón in relation to macro gaming and leisure center with the institutional support reflected in the signing of the protocol with ILD and statements in the media.
Radio Huesca has reported that platform complained about the lack of an impact study on all levels (social, political, demographic, territorial, urban, environmental, cultural, health, etc..), changing laws for private interests and the glorification of the game clearly contradicting the spirit of the law of the game, passed by the Autonomous Executive and intended to prevent irresponsable gambling.
In addition, Stop Gran Scala has opened a similar file to the institution of Justice of Aragon and announced that will do soon a “quantum leap” and taken to Europe by recourse to the Ombudsman, including legal action. Also is pending the Prosecution of the High Court of Aragon rule on a complaint from the platform.
Source: El Periódico de Aragón (picture Enrique Múgica, the Spain’s Ombudsman)
Gran Scala and the Spanish law
The proposed ‘Gran Scala law’ will contain more legal guarantees than any other piece of local legislation from the past 30 years, Aragon’s vice-president José Angel Biel said this week as the government confirmed the completion of a law to oversee the development of the resort complex.
Biel’s announcement followed several months of protracted delays since Aragonese government officials and private investors first unveiled plans to build a Spanish ‘Las Vegas’ in the Monegros desert at the November 2007 G2E exhibition, held in the actual Las Vegas in Nevada. Lee más »
The new Las Vegas law for the Spanish desert of Aragon
The government of the Spanish region of Aragon has declared an intention to publish a new law to pave the way for the creation of Gran Scala, the Las Vegas-type entertainment city in the desert areas of Aragon.
The location of Gran Scala is land between Madrid and Zaragoza, covering 2,000 hectares and it will contain a huge entertainment complex of shops, houses, golf courses, theme parks, family entertainment centres, sporting attractions and 32 casinos. The plan, put together by a consortium named International Leisure Development, with offices in London, will go forward in three phases.
The infrastructure of roads, railways and airport, coming from the Aragon government, will be with the first phase. The statement issued by the authorities this week proposes a new law of ‘amusement with high capacity’, effectively a regulation to permit a high density of gaming.
It would be released in April and come into effect in August 2009.
GranScalaBlog.com / Intergame Online.com
Sheldon Adelson would open a casino in Madrid
Sheldon Adelson, the richest man in Las Vegas, would be interested in opening a casino in Madrid. It has already given the first step on the matter: directors of his staff have been in Ajalvir council, analyzing several locations.
Hotel Casino Venezia is one of the gigants in Las Vegas. On top of that Sheldon Adelson has…
In case it is built in the future, Sheldon would open in Madrid de replica of Venetian Las Vegas, which has also been built in Macau. It is a de-luxe casino with around 300 rooms, an innovative concept in the city, were there are two casinos operating Torrelodones y Aranjuez.
Sheldon Adelson, the sixth richest man worldwide, according to Forbes, is the owner of casinos The Venetian and Palazzo in Las Vegas. Besides, It has opened another two in Macau. In 2008, its company, Las Vegas Sands Corporation, collected us$ 4.3 billion.
The reason why Sheldon team is in Spain and had opened, a few months ago, a second casino in Macau is clear: As Las Vegas is falling as gambling worldwide center as a consequence of the crisis, businessmen are looking for alternatives. The latest example had been the bankruptcy of casino tycoon Donald Trump.
Spain has attracted the interest of the giants of the sector. No other European nation has so many initiatives to open mega-casinos in the style of Las Vegas and Macau. In fact, from the beginning, Los Monegros project was thought to be in a French city, but finally, the whether benefited Spain (the bad experience in Disney Park in Paris also helped).
This way, Spain would be the third worldwide gaming center. That’s why a group of businessmen is planning an alternative project to Los Monegros, in Otinena town, known as Gran Scala. The new idea of these investors is to reduce the initial number of casinos, do it in several phases and take advantage of the good location of the desert, which has AVE and airport.
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