A recent poll has indicated that despite the stringent online gambling laws in the US, more and more US citizens are turning to online gambling. This has also directly resulted in the number of visitors to land-based casinos dropping. In 2006, Bush passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) that outlawed the transfer of funds from financial institutions to gambling sites, therefore banning internet gambling in the US.
Mintel, a London-based market research company, found that:
- Men visited online gambling sites around five times in the past year
- Women visited online gambling sites once in the past year
- 30 percent of adults visited a land-based casino in the past year
- 35 percent that visited a land-based casino in 2001
- 27 percent did so at an Indian reservation
- 24 percent went west to Las Vegas
- 12 percent stayed on the east coast in New Jersey’s Atlantic City
- 25-34 year-old adults were most likely to visit a casino
- 56 percent making the visit at some stage in the past year
- Mintel concluded that the younger age brackets were yet to feel the burden on financial responsibilities, and therefore were more likely to go to casinos
- 55 percent of respondents said they expect to lose when they gamble, and were just doing it for fun, proving that most treat gambling as they would any other form of entertainment
- On the other hand, some 20 percent of respondents said that they win more often than lose.
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