Inside Asian Gaming

IAG APR 2022年4月 亞博匯 45 焦點關注 to the unhealthy development of the gaming industry. I don't think this is such a big deal, because business is like that. For example, property agents were not regulated by law in the beginning, then some speculation and unregulated commission problems happened in the property market and it affected the healthy development of the Macau property market, so the government regulated them with a Property Agent Law. Now all property agents need to be licensed. To be frank, when promoters work as junkets, of course the business will be much bigger, but just because they now have to work as chip rollers doesn’t mean it is not profitable. It’s just that the revenue will be lower. You just need to transform yourself from a business with very high revenue to a business with less revenue, but it doesn’t mean there is no revenue. IAG: Do casino operators still need junkets? KCC: The gaming promoter industry is not unique to Macau. Even in the US you can see promoters bringing gamblers to play and earning commission in return. If the new law still allows this business to exist, it means this business still has value in it. If you are asking if there will be any operator still willing to deal with promoters, the answer depends on the business model in the future, and whether the promoters really can bring benefit to the operators as well as gaming tax to the government. Why can the agents deal with more than one promoter while each promoter can only deal with one operator? I don’t know what the intention is. Shouldn’t it be the opposite? 為甚麼合作人可與多間中介人合作，而中介人 只能與一間博彩承批公司合作？我不知道當中 的用意是甚麼。難道不應該是相反才對嗎？ 另外，經濟財政司司長李偉農曾 表示，新的博彩中介法將出台，該法將 規範中介人和合作人的性質以及其他事 宜。由於相關細節尚未公布，我無法在 此作出評論。當法律出台時才再討論這 個議題。 亞：博彩法修訂案亦提議澳門賭場不再 有中介人貴賓廳，並終止收入分成的安 排。中介人怎樣克服這些安排？ 郭： 針對中介人過往多年的經營模式， 我不會說這是對或錯。然而，中介人模 式經過多年發展，澳門特區政府現在認 為這模式導致了博彩業的不健康發展。 我認為這沒有甚麼問題，因為營運商就 是這樣，例如房地產中介人起初沒有受 法律監管，後來房地產市場出現了一些 投機行為和佣金不規範的問題，影響了 澳門房地產市場的健康發展，因此特區 政府出台《房地產中介業務法》對房地 產中介人進行規範。現在，所有房地產 中介人都需獲發牌照方可從事相關活 動。 老實說，若中介人能以廳主形式經 營，業務規模當然大得多，但現在中介 人只可涉及轉碼，這不代表相關業務無