Nagasaki Prefecture getting down to business
The local arm of Casinos Austria International is in talks with a special advisory committee to prepare a final bid for an integrated casino resort in Nagasaki Prefecture. The jurisdiction selected the Vienna-headquartered behemoth’s Casino Austria Incorporated as its preferred operating partner last month.
Casinos Austria International already runs some 40 gambling facilities in 16 nations including Austria, Egypt, Belgium and Australia. It wants to add Japan to this list. A special nine-member committee in Nagasaki Prefecture is working through the details of the proposed casino-friendly scheme.
The commission is comprised of tourism, transport and problem gaming specialists. It is considering expert opinion on a number of issues in advance of presenting its finished integrated casino resort plan for Nagasaki Prefecture sometime in November. Casinos Austria International Japan Incorporated purportedly declared that the final scheme could end up featuring a $3.17 billion price-tag.
The government for Nagasaki Prefecture is expecting its finished integrated casino resort to attract upwards of 8.4 million visitors every year and chalk up annual gross gaming revenues of $1.36 billion. The local community is to purportedly receive 15% of such receipts in addition to as much as $76 million a year via the daily $54 casino entry fees.