{"id":1590,"date":"2009-10-23T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T07:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2022-09-28T02:30:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T01:30:30","slug":"italy-tourism-minister-vittoria-brambilla-proposes-10-15-new-casinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/italy-tourism-minister-vittoria-brambilla-proposes-10-15-new-casinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy tourism minister Vittoria Brambilla proposes 10-15 new casinos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Italy<\/a>Italy could get an extra 10-15 luxury casinos if Tourism Minister Vittoria Brambilla’s plans go ahead, her spokeswoman said on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The casinos, which would be in five-star hotels, are part of a 19-point plan by Brambilla to boost tourism in Italy, especially in the less-developed and crime-hit south, she said.<\/p>\n

The plan still needs full government approval.<\/p>\n

“The aim is to develop (the sector) and put the south in the same condition as the north, where there are already four casinos. The minister supports a policy of tourism to reactivate the south,” the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n

“The idea is to put casinos in five-star hotels. But the text of the proposal is still under examination,” she said, adding the plan was unlikely to be finalised at Friday’s cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n

The plan includes reopening casinos formerly operated in the Sicilian city of Taormina and in San Pellegrino Terme near the northern city of Bergamo, she said.<\/p>\n

In the north of Italy there are municipal-controlled casinos in Venice, at San Remo, near the French border, at Campione near Como at the Swiss border, and in San Vincent in the Val D’Aosta region.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Agipro news agency which specialises on gaming, said the five-star hotels hosting casinos would have to be approved by local municipalities.<\/p>\n

One of Italy’s largest hotel chains, Alpitour (EXOR.MI), is not currently planning to open casinos at its five-star hotels, an Alpitour spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n

“We have a different philosophy,” she said.<\/p>\n

Alpitour, which is owned by the Agnelli family holding company Exor, recently opened a hotel in a converted convent in Rome.<\/p>\n

In the first nine months, casino bets in Itay were 347 million euros, with Venice the busiest of the four, with 126 million euros, Agipro said earlier this month.<\/p>\n