Gran Scala Spain vs Las Vegas
January 112009
Gran Scala Spain vs Las Vegas -
Gran Scala project, an amusement and casinos resort in Spain. Gran Scala Casinos is a hugely ambitious project, an amusement and casino resort destination planned for Aragon in north-eastern Spain, is raising some eyebrows and generating quite a buzz in the casino industry. British-based consortium International Leisure Development’s Christian Colus explains what the project means, to Casino International. With an estimated 25 million visitors a year to its 32 casino hotels, 70 hotels, 232 restaurants and hundreds of shops among its theme parks and attractions, Gran Scala will be second only to Las Vegas in terms of its scope within the casino industry. But is it viable to expect 25 million visitors? Critics have asked questions about supplying water to one of Spain’s driest areas, and Greenpeace says the whole area in Los Monegros should be a nature reserve. Complainants will need to move quickly though — breaking ground for the project is scheduled for September 2008; ILD is not dragging its heels and, according to ILD’s Christian Colus, there is plenty of interest in the development despite concerns of a global financial slowdown….. Casino International: 12 companies are involved with ILD as shareholders, many of which are very wealthy, and I know Aristocrat is part of this. How did they get involved? Christian Colus: Aristocrat was involved on the gaming side because there is a lot of work to be done with the state of Aragon about the new law that will be launched for the project. The current law of Aragon is not adapted to this kind of project. Not only about the taxes, which is one of the major issues, but the also that it was very difficult in Aragon to have an approval for a slot machine, the new models. Because you need to do in Spanish you need to respect a lot of things that are very different to international standards. So what’s happened, for example, a provider like IGT or Aristocrat will take a lot of time and expense for what, for sell one or two slots, because there is only one casino in Aragon. So it is not possible. So the work was to work on the document with the state to have exactly the same offering as that in Macau, or in Las Vegas, you know, and to work on the on the international standards — and of course to allow English. That was the major problem. Because if you allow English directly you can have the possibility to buy all the slots from all the biggest catalogues from IGT, Atronic, Aristocrat. CI: In terms of the development, the amount of casino hotels that you’re talking about (32) is a huge number for any country to take on; Spain doesn’t have a huge number of casinos anyway, does it? CC: It is important to forget Spain in the conversation as such. We are creating a new destination in the same way as Dubai, Orlando or Las Vegas exists. Spain is not the most important potential market. The problem in Spain is that the casinos don’t work. Why? Because the slots are very old. If you have the time to visit one casino in Spain — except in Barcelona and Madrid where they have done a lot of investment — they are very old slots because they cannot allow English, you know, as we mentioned earlier. CI: Why Aragon? CC: Why Aragon? Because first we have the situation, within a 300km radius we have almost 26 million people, with Aragon exactly in the middle. Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Bilbao, Toulouse are all close by. And second, with Expo 2008 taking place in Zaragoza, they have done a lot of work to the infrastructure. One of them is the fast train, and we’ll have a fast train station inside of the project. So it will be at almost one hour from Madrid and Barcelona by train. There are three airports, one is completely new, the two there are quite handy, at less than 60km from the land. ………….. See the full article on http://granscalablog.com
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