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Toughening of Online Casinos Regulations

A new Costa Rican Tourism Minister means some new severe restrictions on the land gambling industry in the nation. Costa Rica is currently home to many land resort casinos and is the home-base for several American-facing online casinos gambling companies, and new regulations and restrictions on the industry could have a negative impact on internet gambling operations as well. Costa Rica has previously fostered a fairly unregulated and certainly unenforced land and online casinos gambling environment, but the new Tourism Minister has plans for a total overhaul of the country’s gambling industry, and the land casinos are under scrutiny to start.

Tourism Minister Carlos Ricardo Benavides commented recently on the new gambling structure for the country, noting that the country has no intention of becoming a land nor online casinos gambling Mecca. Benavides noted that there are already several areas in the world that specifically cater to large resorts to nurture land gambling and strict licensing and regulations that support online casinos gambling. Costa Rica on the other hand plans to fall into neither of these categories and instead run a moderate land gambling industry that adheres to stringent restrictions.

The online casinos gambling companies based out Costa Rica are worried that Minister Benavides plans to turn the eye of scrutiny onto the internet gambling companies once finished with the land gambling industry. Some of the new restrictions in place for the land casinos and resorts include limited hours of operation for the casino portion of the hotels and resorts – a maximum of eight hours a day as opposed to the current 24 hour structure. Added to that are new restrictions on giving away free alcohol, and restrictions on the percentage of casino floor space to hotel space.