India's Online Casino Market
The Indian online casino gambling market is one of those in the global gambling
industry that is talked a lot about because of the huge potential over the
course of time, but there are only a handful of companies actively vying for
entry into the market. Only recently several Indian states have decided to
license the online casinos and offer controlled gambling to the population. The
decision to offer internet gambling is incredibly controversial because of the
extreme divergence in wealth in the country – there are the newly wealthy that
are immediately jux ta posed next to the extreme poverty in the country that has
led to some intense debate in the country about offering such a pervasive form
of gambling in such a developing country.
The licensing of the online casino gambling industry is really just a formality
at this point because the Indian gaming industry is already worth roughly $5
billion with internet betting then taking in eight times as much annually. This
growth is just the tip of the iceberg really though and as more online casinos
are actually licensed for the Indian market and actively marketing in the
country there will be an increase in the gambling levels over time.
Additionally, as more and more Indians gain wealth and increase out of the
intense poverty bracket they will begin to make up the large number of new
players interested in the internet based games.
The Indian market is also at the such a new stage that online casinos already
operating in the Indian industry are interested in the other growth
opportunities that will present themselves alongside the internet gambling –
mobile gaming, bingo, and a slew of other games that are incredibly popular in
developed gaming industries all over the world. |