Italian gaming spend topped €6bn in July, the highest figure ever recorded during a summer month and substantially up on the €4.5bn recorded during the equivalent period of 2010, with gaming machines and numbers games appearing to gain at the expense of betting.
According to figures just released by Italy’s gaming authority AAMS, it was the introduction of VLTs that accounted for the lion’s share of the more than 20 per cent annual increase in spend. [...]
