Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JAN 2021年1月 亞博匯 75 regulatory requirements and need for operating procedures designed to maximize security. Also, there was sufficient customer demand such that it wasn’t necessary to take the playing experience outside of the casino area. However, in today’s environment, creating an atmosphere where customers can engage on a number of fronts including outside the gaming floor will be important in ensuring the industry keeps pace with customers’ fickle and fast-changing preferences. Allowing patrons, for example, to place bets from their hotel rooms, from restaurants on property or throughout the IR’s operating jurisdictions could help IRs offset some of the demand lost as a consequence of the contagion. Increasing regulatory flexibility trending toward greater liberalization of gaming products will likely generate additional betting turnover and profits. Keno is a good example of a low impact, high margin game of chance that extends gaming activity outside of the casino area. Having online versions could also prove popular. Certainly, companies will need to develop the technology and obtain regulatory approval in order to propose such unique offerings. Yet these concepts still have the potential to spur additional demand in the same way that removal of “barriers to entry” has done with sports betting. However, gaining authorities’ approval will be a key hurdle and will require open- 專欄