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New Zealand – Auckland casino deal will increase casino spend by 2.3 per cent

Forecasts by the New Zealand Health Ministry claim that New Zealanders will gamble more over the next few years with casino spend set to grow by 2.3 per cent by 2016.

Substantial increases in SkyCity’s gaming offer in Auckland where it is being offered more slots and table games in exchange for building a new convention centre in the city are seen as being key to the predicted increase.

SkyCity wird 363.5 Mio. NZ$ für den Bau des Konferenzzentrums ausgeben und erhält 230 zusätzliche Plätze zu den bestehenden 1,647 Plätzen sowie 40 neue Tische, wodurch sich die Gesamtzahl der Tische auf 150 und bis zu 240 Mehrspielerplätze erhöht. Durch die Vereinbarung werden die landesweiten Slots um 8.2 Prozent und die Tische um 20 Prozent erhöht.

The study also forecasts that sports betting through the Totalisator Agency Board will grow by 6.6 per cent by 2016 whilst spend on lottery games will grow by eight per cent.

The study forecasts that spend on machine games in pubs and clubs, the largest sector of the gambling market, will fall slightly over the next three years from US$854m in 2012 to US$849m in 2016.

Im Rahmen der Vereinbarung wird SkyCity neue Maßnahmen zur Prävention von problematischem Glücksspiel einführen, mit besseren Methoden zur Identifizierung potenzieller problematischer Spieler, freiwilligen Vorab-Verpflichtungssystemen zur Begrenzung der Ausgaben- oder Spielzeit und einer Verdoppelung der Anzahl der für die Gastgeberverantwortung zuständigen Spezialisten.

SkyCity originally asked for a lot more in exchange for the building of the convention centre including lowering the age of gambling consent to 18, lower rates of taxation and the approval of internet gambling.

In response to the publication of various documents relating to the deal, Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei, said: “Documents released by MBIE today show that SkyCity had the National Government over a barrel from the start because of its decision to rule out other tenders. The National Government put all its negotiating eggs in one basket, SkyCity knew that and squeezed them for every possible advantage they could gain. They called the shots and maximised every opportunity. SkyCity were far better negotiators and knew how to drag out the process to extract every possible win.”

MPs voted in favour of the SkyCity bill in Parliament, with the legislation passing 61 votes to 59. The bill must now go before a select committee and then in front of Parliament later in 2013 for its second reading.

Derzeit gibt es in Neuseeland 2,800 Spielautomaten und 200 Spieltische, davon mehr als 1,600 Automaten und mehr als 100 Tische im SkyCity Auckland.