The crisis also hits the bingo industry

Fall of the sector: in La Rioja is 11.5% and the national average is 16%. Proposals: Entrepreneurs are betting on diversification and calling for tax administrations are more flexible.

They propose that the fees are applied by the bingo after discounting those who invest in times of crisis, people will leave more money on gambling, hoping a change in its financial plight. However, the entrepreneurs of the bingo halls do not agree with that assessment. Not surprisingly, the sector has registered a fall in La Rioja 11.5%. Although worrying, the figure is far below the national average, to be located, according to the forecasts for this year, about 15 or 16%. This was one of the topics that were discussed yesterday in Honolulu in the assembly of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations of the Bingo Game with representatives of the 23 industry groups in Spain.

Its president, Javier Franch, he noted that the crisis around the world as we noticed, but we must bear in mind that the bingo comprises two components, the gaming and leisure. The president of this group in La Rioja, Felix Brooms, ironically acknowledged that if he closes the year with a drop of 12% still leave happy.

For Brooms, one of the problems that have bingo halls in these times of crisis is that you need permanent staff, so the drop in sales is a big risk. The crisis is real, but largely it is something mental, people are becoming more and more conservative, but in daily life this has hardly changed.

So, entrepreneurs are betting bingo decisively by the diversification of this game. They can offer new games such as bingo machines, but also different ways of playing within the room itself: we can give a premium, which has bingos interconnection can be given higher awards and other initiatives to attract new customers, because our public is aged, explained Escobar. Franch stressed that some of the rooms and make their own cards and there are proposals for virtual bingo. This game began more than thirty years ago and the company now offers a variety of products, so we must open ourselves to these developments.

Rates unchanged One of the horses in battle of this group is to change the taxation administrations, both identified as Franch Escobar. The bingo is one of the four games that bring more to the coffers of the Administration, which is raising that, so to speak, you should beware. The companies of bingo are clear that their business generates revenue and thousands of jobs. Taxes should be discounted once the awards and now the rates are set in stone.