Inside AGE 2022

austgamingexpo.com | #1 AUG 2022 | INSIDE AGE | 63 to COVID. I used to travel to the Philippines and Japan every month, and to other major Asian countries, Australia, the US and UK several times a year. So I’ve gone from about 50 flights a year to zero over the past two-and-a-half-years. It has been particularly difficult in 2022 and everyone in Macau is really struggling – especially with the rest of the world now opening up. IAGE: You mentioned IAG’s events business earlier, can you tell us a little more about that? AWS: Media has changed over the past 17 years and there has been a massive rise in digital media in that time. There has also been a great fragmentation of the media industry. It is so much easier to set up a media company today than it was when IAG began. Just buy a domain name, build a website and start writing articles in your mum’s basement – now you’re a media company. Of Many Asian-based gaming industry executives began their careers in Australian casinos such as Hobart’s Wrest Point.