At the GiocoNews conference organized at Enada 2020 focus on the future of gaming, dealing with the new regulatory and business scenarios.
In terms of gaming, "in the coming months, we await a complex and undefined regulatory framework, including the single register of operators, new tax rates, expiry of concessions, new actions and stop to the permissions for the old Awps". This was stated by
Mauro De Fabritiis, founder of MDF Partners, in his speech at the conference organized by GiocoNews as part of Enada 2020, entitled: "
The new face of gaming and new opportunities"
(here the full video of the conference).
And as for the current scenario, if both physical and online gaming recorded a growing trend in the time frame from 2012 to 2019, "from January to August 2020, following the lockdown, the GGR (gross gaming revenue) of physical gaming fell by 40 percent, while online gaming grew by 30 percent, compared to the same period of 2019, mainly thanks to the driving force of casino games".
For his part,
the expert gaming lawyer Stefano Sbordoni focuses attention on the need to reorganize the gaming offer: "This is a topic that can be addressed or a task that can be carried out by those who have the institutional courage to deal with a communicatively thorny sector, even if in terms of tax revenue it is very convenient".
But let's give the floor to the operators too, with
the number one of Obiettivo 2016, Maurizio Ughi, who takes stock of the endurance of the operators at the time of reopening the activity: “Let's say that at the time of closure we were in 'intensive care'; now we are in 'physical therapy', which has been pretty quick in agencies. The customer was waiting for their reopening, so the acceptance of the gaming didn't undergo big decline compared to the same months of the previous year".
According to
Marco Castaldo, CEO of Microgame, “the market is expanding, as we are working with about fifteen new operators and concessionaires. Online gaming is expanding more and more, in a multichannel perspective with physical concessionaires who are moving online, not only in the defensive line in case of difficulty, but also in the proactive phase".