Revive casinos

Author: Gambling news

6 Dec

The adoption of a draft revision of the Federal Law of Games and Draws, which makes the installation of facilities betting to approval from the state and municipal governments, yesterday revived the controversy generated by the facility by casinos in Mexico, particularly in tourist centers consolidated or developing.

As in the past, the initiative approved by the Commission of Government of the Chamber of Deputies created positions inside the local hotel industry, while some consider it feasible to install casinos in the Mexican Caribbean, others continue to reject outright the proposal Although the state’s governor, Felix Gonzalez Canto, ruled in favor of them in areas of developing tourism, as the Costa Maya or Chetumal.

In an interview, the state governor, Felix Gonzalez Canto, found that unlike the completely free operating casinos in Las Vegas, Cancun the most viable option would be installing a site controlled type Monaco, which also does not compete with hotels, therefore only receive tourists to send the hotels.

In this context, local hoteliers and the president of the Cancun Hotel Association (AHC), Jesus Almaguer Salazar, made clear its rejection of any initiative to install casinos in this tourist destination, as it would go against the vocation of fate, but left open the door to install them in a specific place to deal with tourism.

Both the former president of the AHC and its current vice president, Abelardo Vara Diego Rivera and de la Pena, respectively, was sentenced to Cancun that is not interested in this type of business, so should they insist on installing them would be beyond the hotels.

Even De la Pena proposed to focus on a specific local store, from their perspective Cancun is not ready for this, which does not have the necessary security to guard the big gamblers that come with this kind of business, in addition to could vitiate the destination with more drugs and money laundering.

Similarly, Almaguer Salazar warned that Cancun can not compete with major destinations like Las Vegas casinos, it does not have its infrastructure, permisología, entertainment and connectivity, and it is far from having the open skies policy and who roads claims the U.S. market, which usually go to casinos with a certain level of services.

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