Baltics

Latvia To Move Gambling To Five-Star Hotels

Published

7 years ago

June 21, 2018

Latvia To Move Gambling To Five-Star Hotels

Reading Time: < 1 minute

The rising popularity of gambling in Latvia motivates the country’s political force to come up with new restrictions, thus the possible move of gambling parlours into five-star hotels.

The NCP (conservative pary) is already collecting signatures in order to support the possible move of gambling establishments to the luxury hotels. They have to collect 10,000 signatures. If they succeed the bill is going to go to the Latvian Parliament for debate. In 2017 the NCP managed to close down 42 gambling parlours in the capital city of Riga.

According to NCP, there is a serious situation with gambling business in Latvia, gaming addition increases. On the other hand, there is lobbying of some commercial interests by the political elite.

Source: rus.delfi.lv

Related Topics:

Up Next

Thailand police interrogate social media gambling promoters

Don't Miss

Vietnamese lawmakers approved larger sports betting margin

George Miller

George Miller started his career in content marketing and has started working as an Editor/Content Manager for our company in 2016. George has acquired many experiences when it comes to interviews and newsworthy content becoming Head of Content in 2017. He is responsible for the news being shared on multiple websites that are part of the European Gaming Media Network.