Last year saw aggregated gross gaming revenues for the 460 commercial casinos at the United States rise by 3.4% year-on-year to reach $40.28 billion as the 215 venues located in Nevada once more led the way courtesy of a combined tally of $11.57 billion.
Las Vegas Strip reigned supreme:
The evaluation also revealed that the vegas Strip was the most rewarding gaming locale in the country as its aggregated gross gaming revenues for 2017 climbed by 1.3% year-on-year to hit $6.46 billion.
Atlantic City remained in second spot:
The study moreover determined that Atlantic City was in second place concerning the USA ’ commercial casino industry in 2017 with its own seven places recording aggregated gross gaming revenues of $2.66 billion, which represented an improvement of 2.2% year-on-year.
Baltimore/Washington overtook New York City:
Interestingly, the analysis clarified that 2017 watched the area called ‘Chicagoland,’ which encompasses each of the casinos in northern Indiana and Illinois, remained in third spot with aggregated gross gaming revenues of $1.97 billion while the places in and around Baltimore and Washington, DC, overtook people of New York City to maintain fourth position courtesy of the $1.77 billion tally.
Aggregated gross gaming revenues for places in ‘The Big Apple’ were reported as reaching $1.57 billion in 2017 whereas the three properties in Detroit weren’t far behind thanks to a annual total that came to $1.41 billion.
Gulf Coast tally approached Philadelphia’s:
Rounding out the top ten along with the casinos at Philadelphia and along the Gulf Coast vied for seventh and eighth spot last year as their tallies attained $1.25 billion and $1.18 billion respectively followed by people in the St Louis area at $1.03 billion and the Pocono Mountains at $990.5 million.
Macau missing again:
Perhaps most surprisingly, the AGA analysis determined that aggregated gross gaming revenues for business casinos in the United States last year were over 22% higher than the tally for Macau despite the former Portuguese enclave recording an annual swell of a 19.1%. This was the third successive year the Chinese town hadn’t occupied top spot after first supposing the dominant global place in 2012.
Antiques gambling on the up:
In conditions of 2017 aggregated gross gaming revenues from the USA ’ collection of 494 tribal gaming places, the analysis reportedly found an almost 3.9% rise year-on-year to $32.4 billion together with the industry having paid approximately $16 billion in taxes to federal, state and local authorities.
Finally, GGRAsia reported that the AGA study determined the commercial casino industry in the United States had passed over a $9.23 billion in tax during the course of 2017. This figure purportedly represented 23% of gross gaming revenues, which was contrasted against Macau’s effective 39% tax rate.
