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Expanding Italian gambling market
May 12, 2009, 8:01 am (2 years ago)The Italian gambling market keeps on flourishing, indicated by latest figures just reported from the country’s authoritarian body, the AAMS, which cover the period January to April 2009 and indicate that gambling wagers in Italy went up ten % in the 1st 4 months of the year to Euro 17.603 billion, with wagers in April alone marking Euro 4.442 billion. In the relative period April 2008, wagers were reported 4.076 billion.
As said by Reuters business news service, there was continuous increase in sports betting and online poker, lotto sales went down, but scratch-cards wagering went up.
Gambling wagers in Italy jumped ten % in the 1st 4 months of the year to 17.603 billion, with gambling group Lottomatica reporting that 2/3 of its anticipated entire year income is going to generated from Italy. Especially Lottomatica has the dispensation for Italy’s Lotto game, Gratta & Vinci scratch cards and is enlarging in sports betting and online poker as well.
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