In our country the crisis does not spare even the sector of games. Last year the net expense of Italians who have dedicated themselves to activities such as lotteries, scratch cards or video poker is decreased by 3,5% compared to 2011, at 17,1 billion euros.
Il number of players he recorded one instead decrease of 5%, going from 24,7 million in 2011 to 23,5 million in 2012. The trend in wagers is, moreover, in contrast to the trend abroad: broadening our gaze to the whole of Europe, in fact, the figure has grown by 5,4% , with a peak of +20,5% in Denmark.
The numbers were released by Gtech, formerly Lottomatica, which presented its social report today. The company also underlined that, thanks to the regulation of the sector, the impact of illegal gaming in the last 10 years has been considerably reduced, going from 57% in 2003 to 8% in 2012.
However "there are still pockets of illegal gaming" and Confindustria "estimates that there are over four thousand illegal betting points in Italy", writes Gtech, specifying that the full recovery of the existing illegal gaming "would bring an additional billion euro to the treasury" . In 2012, the group's contribution to Italian coffers reached 3,6 billion euros, 44% of revenue from gaming (8,1 billion euros).
At the beginning of the afternoon, Gtech's stock traded just above parity.
