| GamblingPhD menu | Online Gambling Expo February 13, 2009 Macau is still the only place in China where gambling is permitted, so it is no wonder that it is the sight of the seventh Annual Asian i-Gaming Congress and Expo. The online gambling conference will be held from February 24th through the 26th this year, and it will be hosted once again a the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel. This online gambling conference is very popular in the industry as gaming enthusiasts and investors will be coming from around the world. Not only do they come to the conference to see about online gambling opportunities that might be out there, but also to see how they might expand within the region itself. Macau is already incredibly popular to the extent that it has already surpassed the revenue that comes in to the Las Vegas Strip. They have only been open to gambling since 2001 which shows you that the amount of money still left to be made in the region is bound to outdo anything that can possibly be currently imagined. Last year the online gambling conference saw more than 500 participants and that number is expected to increase greatly this year. The country has an infrastructure that makes it easily accessible to the rest of the world. The event is a three day conference, and many say that in order to truly understand and experience everything that is out there new technology wise, that it really should be a longer conference. They say that it could easily take you a week to understand the options out there in the online gambling world. Back to February 09 Archive. |