"The prospects of the gambling industry in Primorsky Krai.
The gambling industry as a part of the entertainment industry has increased over the last two centuries from highly specialized areas to independent branches of business, serving millions of people every year. The volume of money spent every year on gambling, tournaments and other shows is estimated in hundreds of billions of dollars, and the capacity of this market is constantly growing. Countries in which legalized gambling exists, not only get good profit from enterprises, but also receive the big base for holding summits and the congresses; however it can aggravate criminal conditions.
The newest casinos represent the whole complex including slots and table games, the congress center, hotel, restaurants and bars, sports and trading offices, and sometimes cinemas. The majority of such casinos is situated in historical buildings or exotic areas of big cities.
It is typical for casino to have highly-developed technical equipment, high and stable service, and also the staff with knowledge of several languages.
However, nowadays, in the gambling industry there has arisen a new type – an online casino and poker-room. It has happened because of new technologies and general availability of the Internet. These innovations allow taking pleasure in games, being at home. Thereby the tendency in a gambling industry, when the casino and the accommodation industry were the whole thing, is now broken.
According to this trend, the quality of material equipment of the gambling enterprise is not the main thing; qualitative service and safety of clients become the main criterion.
However, there is a number of clients who are especially valued by the gambling enterprises. Their names are VIP-clients, and they demand the highest degree of service. The main difference between the basic service and VIP service is an individual approach to the client of the latter type, and it subsequently defines the price. Specificity of VIP-service consists in individuality and dearness of the offered services.
Poker-rooms know the requirements of separate groups of clients; therefore their activity is based on: safety regulations, high moral principles, reputation in the business world, and individual approach in services. As a result the VIP-clients receive a high degree of service.
Customer orientation is the basic principle of marketing gambling enterprises. According to this, service of VIP-clients should be focused on satisfaction of their various requirements in the best way.
Statistics show after passing of the federal law № 244-F3 in the Russian Federation there was a great number of players in poker which play at different poker-rooms. Some players play at such level that Internet platforms consider them as VIP-clients. For such clients poker-room organize special individual support service and carries out promotion actions.
On June, 18th, 2010 at the exhibition «Russian Gaming Week» Natalia Meshchaninova, the head of department of a gambling zone of Primorsky Krai told the details of the project of construction gambling zone "Primorye ". According to the project, one of four gambling zones in the Russian Federation will be built, near Artem city 15 kilometers away from the international airport Vladivostok.
The gambling zone "Primorye" has a favorable place: only 50 km away from Vladivostok city - the capital of Primorsky Krai and the largest city in region, and 15 kilometers away from the international airport Vladivostok.
Building of a gambling zone at Primorsky Krai represents a great interest for the gambling industry and investors. The possibility of creation a casino in the country with the European culture, which is located in Asia, gives a great opportunity for organizing highly profitable business.
The gambling zone "Primorye", with the support of the government and private investors, can be competitive to "the Pearl of Asia» Macao. Nowadays there are preconditions to sign an agreement with giants of online gambling industry such as: PokerStars, FullTIltPoker, PartyPoker.
According to website pokertableratings.com the total number of Russian players in the three most popular poker rooms is over 250000 players and considering additional poker rooms and poker networks, the number could reach 400000 players.
Nevertheless for the Russian Federation this situation with players is unacceptable. Internal revenue service isn’t capable of detecting profit of Russian players and the money they spend on gambling. Some discrepancies in the anti-gambling law allow players from Russia to play in casino and poker-room, which are located abroad.
Thereby, the idea of the Russian government about creating Russian Gambling zones is compromised, and the rate of development of the Gambling zone "Primorye" can be considerably slowed down.
Summing up, I believe it is necessary for the Russian Federation to create a legal basis for game in poker-rooms. The competent tax system will allow to receive profit of all players, irrespective of their location. Such system will provide each citizen of the Russian Federation with legal possibility to take pleasure in gambling, and the government will receive surtaxes, and will supervise the gambling industry.
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Right round like a record, baby
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