Items Tagged with 'casino management'

Any good leader understands that communication is critical in a time of crisis. 

Aristocrat Technologies has partnered with Boyd Gaming Corporation to launch Aristocrat’s cashless wagering digital wallet technology at Boyd Gaming’s Blue Chip Casino Resort Spa in Michigan City, Ind. 

Thackerville, Okla.-based WinStar World Casino has launched the WinStar Wallet, cashless payment technology provided by Everi Holdings.

The title for this column comes from Queen Elizabeth’s understated description of 1992, a year that saw the collapse of three royal marriages and a fire that destroyed much of Windsor Palace. 

888, one of the world’s leading online gaming entertainment and solutions providers, has tapped Vaughan Lewis for the newly created role of chief strategy officer. 

For most casinos that have reopened after COVID-19 shutdowns, regulatory restrictions have made the gaming environment somewhat less productive then it was before the pandemic struck.  

Even before the coronavirus pandemic struck, a landmark report from the World Health Organization (WHO) on social determinants of health (SDoHs) cited poor air quality as one of the leading non-medical factors that influence health. 

Thanks to a set of diverse financial factors such as COVID-19, ISS, SEC, short sellers and activist investors, it is an absolute pressure cooker for anyone in the public markets today. 

In my opinion, the entire casino industry is ready for reinvention; but for some marketing leaders, the path to reinvention first involves getting back to basics of marketing, branding and being genuine. 

We shake our snow globes, peer into our cloudy crystal balls, twist and turn our Magic 8-Balls and say, with frustration, “Stupid piece of junk.”