More visitors attended International Casino Exhibition

The ICE (International Casino Exhibition) that took place at Earls Court in London has increased eighth year consecutively. According to the organizer Clarion Gaming this year’s exhibition drew around thirteen thousand visitors which is a record. It was estimated more than ten thousand visitors which included around 2, 860 visitors for ICEi also. All this goes to show that there is increase in the visitors of around eight percent as compared to last year.

Around seven thousand consumers from the soft gaming expo ATEI were also informed to have visited International Casino Exhibition. All in all the grand total of the visitors was estimated more than nineteen thousand. The visitors both consisted of British crowd and from abroad, it was evident that the numbers of the users from the abroad increased by 1.5 percent to more than seven thousand visitors.

The visitors came at International Casino Exhibition from more than hundred countries and it is five times more than what was the previous year with Tuvalu, Marshall Islands, and Rwanda, these places are being represented for the first time. The visitors from around 127 countries also attended the exhibition if you include the visitors of ATEI and the exhibition was truly a global event.

In the continental regions the growth was recorded and the main growth was recorded in South East Asian countries where the percentage rose to more than seventeen percent from 231 to 284. The percentage rose to 11.2 percent to around 195 of the visitors from Middle East and North Africa. The number of visitors from Continental Europe rose witnessed a rise of 2.4 percent that is to 5,663 and Southern and Central Africa rose up to 1.5 percent to 134.

If the visitors from United Kingdom are excluded then the visitors from America were in majority around five hundred visitors with an increase of more than two percent. Last year’s rise of around fourteen percent shows that Austria is placed in the second place when talked about the visitors.

The number of visitors from Sweden also witnessed an increase of 25.6 percent i.e. 457 visitors which ranks Sweden at number in the case of visitors. Continuing with ranking Germany came fourth with 447 visitors, Slovenia at fifth place with more than three hundred visitors. The visitors from Italy were very close to Slovenia with 385 visitors, France with 380 visitors, Netherlands with 293 and 221 visitors for Malta.

Miss Karen who is the Head of Exhibitions of Clarion Gaming was of the view that International Casino Exhibition and ICEi carry on showing to the operators across the globe. The credit goes to the efforts and hard work of the exhibitors which on a yearly basis continue to display innovative and ground-breaking measures.