Articles tagged “gaming”

First Taiwan, in a bid to attract Chinese tourists and money, and now South Korea.

Atlantic City had a great thing going with its Do AC advertising campaign which was working. Tourists coming back will depend on infrastructure rebuild now.

The convenience of betting from a restaurant or your room is appealing, but the long-term goal here is getting consumers to think of casino brands first when they go to gamble online.

Once derided as devices for wealthy consumers, iPads have quickly become the budget alternative for travel industry players -- like resorts and airlines -- that are looking for more cost-effective ways to reach customers.

Mass market slot machines aren't doing that well, but high-end Baccarat play are booming. Sign of the economic times, really.

You don't want to look at Atlantic City's revenues too closely. You think the airport's bad? The social cost of running A.C.'s casinos is even higher.

What is and isn't an Indian casino in the U.S. is so much about local politics and creative boundaries that a battle like this amounts to not much more than closing the gate after the horses have escaped.

Unless your city is a marquee destination like Las Vegas or Macau that has more to offer visitors than loose slots, there's little to keep visitors loyal to one city over another.

Finally, a way to make social media addiction pay. Every location-based update a user makes to linked social media accounts -- no matter the number of followers they have -- gives them loyalty points equal to what spending $20 does.

With the average foreign visitor likely to spend nearly triple on everything, the local tourism and convention board wants to nearly double its foreign influx to 30% of the city's total.