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    • Casino licences - Tourism and community impacts

      Abstract:
      The rise of integrated resort development is a common strategy employed across a range of countries in seeking to diversify and attract current and new tourism markets. In mid-April, the Japanese government announced the first casino licence has been awarded to a consortium comprising MGM (US) and local Japanese stakeholders to be developed in Osaka. To be opened by 2029, this integrated resort offers a timely and necessary conversation around how such developments create tourism and other community impacts, in both positive and perhaps negative ways. Drawing from other examples in Asia Pacific (e.g. Australia, the United Arab Emirates and Singapore), this lecture will document best practices and how the business model of integrated resorts should be conceptualised and formulate valuable strategies for tourism and community legacies of the future.