The Bantustans were created during the apartheid period of South Africa's history and represented one of the key pillars of planning for 'grand apartheid'. A major challenge was the promotion of economic development in these territories in order to give them a facade of economic legitimacy. Four of ...

The aim of this study was to understand the impacts of changes in free-play (FP) award values on visitation frequency and gaming revenue. With costly and perpetual FP campaigns well established in many markets, a critical issue for operators centers on the potential consequences of walking back...

This study aims to evaluate the merger effect of hotel mergers between 1981 and 2019 and assess which theoretical framework mergers in the lodging industry would conform. Previously, no work has been done about the nature of hotel mergers using the combined return, while this lack of thoroughness...

The gambling industry has been traditionally considered a complement for the tourism sector that might foster its development (Eadington, 1999). Several studies have put forward the notion that the opening of new casinos can be an effective strategy for economic growth (Lee, 2011; Rephann, Dalton,...

This paper is to investigate whether anti-money-laundering (AML) improvement in a gaming tourism destination is driven by the integration of new technologies, or by other factors such as financial inclusion and close coordination between companies and related government bodies. The quantitative...

Millennials (persons born between 1981 and 1996) comprise a substantial and growing proportion of tourism consumers in the US. Rural economies, especially Native American communities, focused on casino revenue are faced with the challenge of sustainable economic growth in a millennial-dominant,...

This link goes to a English section Structural change in the tourism industry is a potential driving force for tourism demand. Using sectoral-level data of capital formation, employment, and value-added as diversification measures, a positive relationship is found to exist between sectoral...

Using the ARIMA time-series analysis technique, this study measured the impact China's anti-corruption campaign had on Macau's casino gaming industry and forecasted future gaming revenue. This study also analyzed current trends and proposed future strategies for the Macau tourism and gaming...

This article proposes to awaken reflection on the importance of implementing casino hotels, allied to the increase in tourism, as a possible strategy for the territorial development of the Brazilian Semiarid region. The proposal is mainly based on an examination of the literature relevant to the...

The primary purpose of this inquiry was to reexamine casino service quality scale development in a major U.S. gaming market. A secondary objective was to then examine this relationship with the satisfaction and loyalty constructs, as the structural connection among service quality, customer...