COVID-19 Gambling Related News

Overall visitor numbers to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, fell by 70% in June compared to last year’s figure. According to a report from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), just over one million people visited the world’s most renowned gambling town throughout the month. That may not sound bad at first, …

The Netherlands’ gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has revealed that it recently issued 14 periodic penalty payment orders against gambling operators in the country. The penalized operators and affiliates were all using coronavirus-pandemic related marketing. Some examples given in the regulators’ statement include advertising an online casino as “corona-free” gambling, or coronaviruj gokken in Dutch. Since …

MGM-owned Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa became the last of Atlantic City’s casinos to reopen on Sunday after the COVID-19 pandemic forced Governor Phil Murphy to lock the state down on March 21st—now some four months ago. Casinos were told they could reopen on July 2nd, albeit with a whole load of new measures in …

Key figures in the sector have criticized the UK government this week for failing to include physical casinos in the list of entertainment and hospitality venues that will open up on July 4th. All such venues, alongside every other non-essential business, were shut down on March 23rd due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The UK has …

Online casinos in New Jersey posted record revenues over the month of May despite the ongoing closure of all physical casinos in the state. Atlantic City’s casinos have been shuttered since mid-March due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. 120,000 Americans have died from the respiratory disease so far, although local epidemics have now passed their …

While it seems Macau’s efforts to halt the local spread of the now global Covid19 coronavirus pandemic last month were relatively successful, casinos and gambling operators across the rest of the world are now the ones primarily feeling the pinch. The Asian gambling hub reported no new cases of the respiratory disease for 40 days—until …

As the world’s total number of confirmed Covid19 coronavirus infections passed 200,000 this week, with over 8,000 dead and a further 7,000 in critical care, things are looking pretty grim for many sectors of the world economy, including gambling. However, as usual in times of crisis, there are some economic and social positives.  This is …

On February 20th, the Asian gambling hub of Macau re-opened the doors at many of its casinos for the first time since the ongoing coronavirus outbreak caused them to shutter up on February 4th. Twenty-nine casinos opened their doors at exactly midnight on Wednesday, having been closed for just over two weeks. As expected, there …

In late January, Macau Casinos was hit by a travel ban due to Coronavirus scares. On February 4, all 41 of Macau’s casinos shut their doors to visitors—certainly for the next two weeks, but potentially even longer than that. The unprecedented move was prompted by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. This serious new respiratory disease, estimated …

When the Chinese government made the decision to lock down nearly 12 million people in the region of Hubei, at the center of the Coronavirus epidemic that started in Wuhan over a month ago now, many people expected the economic impact would be large and widespread. Among one of the most precipitous falls so far …