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UK Not Worth U.S. Effort

Prime Minister Gordon Brown effectively shut down all plans for the planned Manchester supercasino – and with those plans now firmly off the radar, U.S. land gambling companies are no longer interested in entering the UK land casinos gambling industry. The UK has a very healthy online casinos gambling industry, but PM Brown scrapped plans for a supercasino that would then attract land gamblers from all over the world. The British government now plans to open several smaller casinos throughout the UK - but these smaller facilities are hardly worth the time of big-time casino companies based out of the United States. The U.S. based Las Vegas Sands Inc. has now withdrawn interest in the project, claiming that the smaller gambling facilities are now more suited for development from smaller gambling companies.

The plan for the supercasinos would have meant a much larger gambling venue than is now planned, and would have been a tourist attraction within the UK, drawing in business from all over the world – with the small casino planned, the facility will mostly draw in local gamblers and will not in turn generate large streams of revenue and tourism. The Las Vegas Sands Inc (a land gambling company with no specific tie to the online casinos gambling industry) COO, William Weidner, noted "and so they have the worst of all worlds - now they have casinos that won't drive visitors in from further away and they'll just have larger places that take more of the money off the local people," said Weidner.

Weidner expressed a bit of bitterness about how the deal went down and the way that the new deal essentially excludes U.S. operators and was a large waste of time and energy for the company. Weidner remarked about the UK, "The home team won. The operators there in the UK worked the system very well, so they ended up with what they wanted, what I would consider to be sub-optimal, lousy little casinos that kept them in the game and kept us out."

The Las Vegas Sands and other major U.S. land and online casinos companies had plans to bring some of the glitz and glamour to the UK gambling industry though the previously planned supercasinos. The new casino plans are now more suited to smaller gambling companies such as Rank and Gala Coral.