Global Gaming Almanac Provides Complete Overview of Casinos Worldwide 2009 - 2010

The Global Gaming Almanac describes each segment of the gaming industry including casino and card room gaming, race wagering, sports betting, commercial bingo, lotteries, charitable gaming, and online gaming. Annual financial statistics are provided in tables and charts, where avaialable, along with the historic and current regulatory environment in each jurisdiction, an overview of pending legislation, and major trends. Counts and distribution of gaming properties, devices and tables are given along with profiles of properties, owners and regulatory agencies.

As an added bonus, the Almanac appendix provides country-by-country Consumer Price Index (CPI) tables and currency conversion information.

The Global Gaming Almanac CD gives you the entire contents of the printed almanac in electronic format, a Global Gaming Property Map, more than 180 annual reports of international gaming business, plus our unique Gaming Market Analyzer tool using radius searching to allow you to define custom geographic markets to analyze.

The almanac has five main areas of focus within each jurisdiction. First, the major market segments are described, including casino and card room gaming, lotteries, commercial bingo, race wagering, sports betting, and online gaming. Information on recent financial statistics, the historical and current regulatory environment, an overview of pending legislation, and major trends is included.

Second, summary tables show the distribution and total numbers for types of gaming facilities, gaming devices (including slots, video lottery terminals, and electronic Bingo), and gaming tables (including poker) within the jurisdiction. Other summarized statistics include casino square footage, convention square footage, number of rooms, restaurants, entertainment venues, parking spaces, and number of employees.

Third, more than 2,600 gaming properties are covered across the jurisdictions. Details provided for individual properties include physical address, phone and fax numbers, website and e-mail address, property owner, types of table games, restaurant names and cuisines, entertainment venues, attractions, and hours of operation. All of the summarized statistics listed above are also provided for individual properties.

Fourth, for each gambling activity in a jurisdiction, the appropriate regulatory body is shown with name, location and contact information.

Finally, this edition of the Global Gambling Almanac is the first to include current and historical activity-specific revenue charts and tables. As this is the first year for which this type of data has been collected, it will not be included for many jurisdictions. We hope to see the number of jurisdictions providing revenue figures increase with each edition. This data is collected from regulatory agencies and commissions around the world.

Specifically, the new data includes
Four years of calendar year net gaming revenue by gaming activity. The four calendar years of data are presented in local currency and U.S. dollars for all jurisdictions. The data is also presented in inflation-adjusted terms using December 2008 as the base when the consumer price index is provided by the jurisdiction. See the appendix for details of the calculations required to produce the revenue data presented in this book.
Five-year revenue bar charts for each gaming activity in each jurisdiction. Inflation-adjusted and U.S. dollar charts are included for each available jurisdiction as well.
Summary tables with four years of revenue, revenue change since prior year, inflation adjusted revenue and inflation adjusted revenue change since prior year for each gaming activity.
Raw revenue data tables and, when obtainable, tables of taxes collected per gaming activity.