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How The Coronavirus Has Affected
The Gambling Industry? |
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The global pandemic caused by
Covid-19 has been one of the toughest times for businesses with many sufferings
to keep afloat with many having to close forever. When it comes to the gambling
industry, they have had both positive and negative impacts from the virus and
today we look at them. |
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Image: The Criminal Law Blog |
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The area of the industry that
has suffered the most is of course that of the high-street casinos and bookies.
These sites have been the last to re-open after the height of the lockdown and
some have struggled to re-open at all with
many closing for good. Not
only is the affecting the operators but with many losing their jobs due to
this. The government highlighted these areas as one of the high-risk locations
for the transmission of the disease
Although this has been a struggle
for the main operators, they have benefitted in alternative ways. Operators
have experienced a surge in numbers onto their online gambling markets due to
the fact that many werent able to practise their usual hobbies and
therefore used online services such as casinos to get their entertainment.
Due to the lack of sport that was happening in Spring/Summer due to
many countries practising social distancing to limit the spread of the disease
and therefore many sports betters had to find alternative methods to gain their
fun during the lockdown. This further pushed many on
here who gave a vast range of
casinos, card games and slots for us gamblers to have fun with.
Due to
this, we missed many major events in the industry such as the Grand National
and therefore with the country united, the industry set up the Virtual Grand
National which raise £3 million pounds for the NHS. However, although
this seemed to be quite an innocent thought and gesture of the industry, many
called it a dirty marketing ploy for many to put their sites into the face of
the consumer in time of worry.
In conclusion, this pandemic has proven
the way that the world is going and that is of course the digital way due to
the migrating of many going online now-a-days and not just with gambling but
also shopping, streaming and many many more. This might be a worry for the
high-street stores however this has been the case for many years now, with the
majority of people using online alternatives to leaving the house and having to
go and do an activity physically.
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