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Aristidis Tsikouras, Managing Director, GeWeTe speaks to Rebecca Green, Technology Correspondent, Casino Life

How was 2015 and how is 2016 looking so far for the company?

GeWeTe is the specialist company within the Gauselmann Group for solutions centred on money changing and innovative payment methods. With 23 years of experience, the focus is, and always has been, on providing solutions for individual applications in our markets with the best and most secure technology available to us. We have embodied this from day one and this it has enabled GeWeTe to grow so strongly over the years. 2015 was, once again, a successful year for us and we foresee not only matching this success but exceeding it this year.

The Customer Experience

The Customer path, at times, is like walking a bull through a china shop. There are narrow twists and turns line the experience along the way and in the process you hope nothing gets broken.

As in the my china shop example; the path to follow is difficult for your employees engaged in the Customer Experience (CE.) It is layered strewn with both predictable and unpredictable moments that can either fracture or enhance a the customer experience.

What narrow twists and turns define your customer’s experience? How strong is your employee’s dedication to guide them? I recently questioned a group of my Hospitality Master students on what a ‘Great Customer Service Experience’ meant to them.

Creating Memories

 

Glyn Thomas chats to Thérèse Liljeqvist, General Manager at Casino Cosmopol Stockholm, about how staff contribute significantly to making the casino offer unique and unforgettable

I met Thérèse last year at G2E when we had our Casino Life reception at the Wynn. With busy times in between it’s taken until now to complete our interview but it gives a clear insight into how the Casino Cosmopol ticks.

Thérèse, as you know we at Casino Life take great pride in interviewing leading industry CEO’s and Senior Level Management both to get to know the companies that they work for as discover their key attributes for success. Please tell our readers about yourself and your role at Casino Cosmopol.

2016’s top gambling tournaments

As ever 2016 looks to provide the world’s top gamblers with some truly spectacular tournaments that continue to showcase games of poker, blackjack and roulette as being some of the most gripping activities in the world.

From dazzling poker competitions in some of the world’s most iconic gambling locations, to some seriously impressive online roulette innovations, it looks like 2016 could be a watershed year thanks to these massive gambling tournaments.

Absolute Entertainment

Michael Silberling CEO at Affinity Gaming, LLC sat down with our Associate Editor David McKee in Las Vegas to talk about the company’s future

You wouldn’t think to look at it but, behind a generic office door in Summerlin, Nevada, lie the headquarters of a national casino company. Affinity Gaming is firm both new and old, having been reconstituted from the ashes of Herbst Gaming, which crashed and burned under the financial weight of buying both a large Nevada slot route and three MGM Mirage casinos (for $400 million) at the height of the casino boom. Bankruptcy quickly followed.

Technology is Driving the Poker Revolution

In the last two decades, the world has changed faster than anyone could have imagined. Every single aspect of life has been affected in one way or another. 

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Premier Performance

Mark Jones Managing Director of Grosvenor Casinos chats to Peter White

L-R_Mark Jones Managing Director Grosvenor Casinos, Cherry Tatlow Rank Cares Manager, Sarah Walsh Senior Fundraising Manager Carers Trust
 

How did you find the transition from Mecca to Grosvenor Casinos and how would you describe your first 18 months in the role?

How to Get Millennials to Gamble – and Like It!

A simple way for Casinos to attract Millennials – and show them how to Enjoy Gambling! ~ By: Victor H Royer 

In my 33 years in Las Vegas, I’ve read a lot of magazines. Trade magazines, consumer magazines, Gaming, Leisure, Travel, and so on. Mostly on casino gaming, casino games, and the business of Casinos, and casino gambling. I have also written for a lot of these publications – more than 4,000 articles to date, and counting. Actually – I lost the count a few years ago, but I still have all my computers – dating all the way back to 1984 – and so I can fire them up, and revisit at least some of those writings.

Golden Entertainment

David McKee chats to Blake Sartini CEO Golden Entertainment

Golden Entertainment is thinking big these days and if you didn’t know by its actions, the lobby of its corporate headquarters might provide a clue. It’s a three-story atrium, decorated with hunting trophies, and filled with sofas and coffee tables. Amid such grandeur, the lone receptionist seems dwarfed into insignificance. Outside, a few steps away, stands one of the company’s upmarket Sierra Gold taverns. Golden’s success is built in large part on its various tavern brands, 49 of which undergird the company’s prosperity with a mix of food, drink and video poker. Golden Entertainment also prospers from its distributed gaming or “slot route” division – locations in restaurants, stores and gas stations that host as many as 15 slot machines.

As Lottery Sales Surge China Considers Online Ticket Sales

Lottery sales in China are on the up which could lead to a reintroduction of online gaming options across the country according to recent reports.

Following a steady decline in lottery revenue since the Chinese government imposed a temporary ban on online lottery ticket sales in March 2015, April 2016's results showed renewed interest in the industry. Despite sites like 500.com failing to make any money for more than a year, live lottery ticket sales in China were up by 7% (to $5.3 billion) when comparing April 2016 to April 2015.