UK online gamblers fed up with optimistic predictions

In the UK gambling consultancy Global Betting and Gaming Consultants (GBGC) made forecasts on a cheerful future of online gambling irrespective of the current economy downturn in the world. Chief Executive Warwick Bartlett predicted that the world’s gambling market would grow from $345 billion in 2007 to US$433 billion by 2012 as a result of players' inclination to stay home and save on transport costs to land casinos.

Bartlett criticized British authorities and pointed at their missing out on an opportunity to pull in offshore operators. He called upon them to revise Internet gambling taxation.

Rosy statements of Bartlett's company about the future of two mega land casinos in Singapore and the prospect that the second largest gambling nation, Japan, could have a legal land casino within 5 years were taken by the community with scepticism.