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Casinos to entertainment capital
Bangkok Post
|July 09, 2025
Casino "integrated resorts (IRs)" — framed as "entertainment complexes (ECs)" in Thailand — have proved to be hugely transformative for tourism, destination image, the economy, policy creation, and society.
The process, debate, and anti/prosentiment around casino legalisation in Thailand to pave the way for IRs/ECs introduction is not dissimilar to countries and cities that have previously introduced ECs, and in most cases after introduction, a continued programme of ECs expansion.
There are various top-of-mind issues to review now in Thailand's ECs and commercial gaming legalisation discussion, and as ECs introduction history has shown, other considerations that inevitably will occur over time, including cost/benefit analysis (economic and social) taxation/fees, public policies, potential customer markets, types of gaming/non-gaming, tourism diversification, master planning — the list continues.
The iconic physical presence of ECs and the impact on city skylines can be a notable first impression on a trip to Las Vegas, Macao, Singapore or the Philippines.
This story is from the July 09, 2025 edition of Bangkok Post.
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