Conference Corner
Published: Thursday, February 08, 2007 Online-Casinos.com
CONFERENCE CORNER
Mexico chosen for IGCE 2007
The International Gaming Conference & Expo, (IGCE Europe), following very positive results from their two conferences of 2006, in San Jose, Costa Rica and Dublin, Ireland, has now scheduled its first gathering for May 7-9, 2007, in Cancun, Mexico, at the Fiesta Americana Condesa, possibly Cancun's finest resort.
Cynthia Pagano, Assistant Director of Conferences for the IGCE, said:” We focused on securing locales for North America and Europe for 2007, with an eye cast in the direction of yet another in the Far East for 2008, venues that would be our destinations for at least the next three years.
"Cancun is perfect, easy to reach, a five-star resort for our sponsors, exhibitors, speakers, attendees and we are now in the process of concluding Prague as our European setting with Bangkok, Thailand likely for our Far East offering in 2008."
The focus of the conference in Cancun is billed as "What's Next?" to attempt to determine the direction of the gaming and gambling industries in the U.S. and abroad, particularly off-shore.
"In a society such as ours," Pagano continued, "where gambling is pervasive, lotteries are held in almost every state, there is an overflow of Indian casinos, Nevada is burgeoning and busting at the seams, wagering is a near obsessive pastime of the populace, odds are published in all of our media, the intention of the government to curtail the activity, with emphasis on the Internet, demands a multitude of questions and answers to determine what is next."
Pagano says that what everyone wants to know is ... is Asia the next frontier, will the U.S. finally legalise, regulate and tax Internet gambling, opening the floodgates for Nevada and closing them for anyone else? Should you merge, sell, acquire, take the money and shut down? Will it be fantasy sports, mobile interactivity, positioning an acquisition by MGM Mirage or other anticipated entry over the next few years?
"The answers," she concluded, "will be found in Cancun in May."
