Thursday, 16th of June, the TRESINO-GROUP* started its seminar series with the topic Measuring the economic impact and social costs of the Tampere casino.
Casino impact studies have been so far mainly conducted in Canada and the US. The casinos studied there were big scale destination style casinos. The casino that opened at the end of last year in Tampere, is a small-scale urban casino instead. Lessons learned from previous studies can thus hardly be inferred to the case of Tampere. Besides the different size, the Finnish nationwide monopolistic provision of casino gambling adds a further caveat to the extrapolation of previous economic experiences with casinos. The gambling revenue in Finland is distributed centrally and does not stay where the gambling happens, as in many other jurisdictions. Continue reading “New seminar series on the Tampere casino”