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India – Delta Corp linked to Sikkim casino

Reports out of India suggest that Delta Corp, the country’s largest publicly traded gaming company, is gearing up to open Sikkim’s third land-based casino with a project nearing completion in Sikkim in the Himalayas.

Analysts believe the Hotel Welcom Heritage Denzong Regency in Gangtok has been given a license under the Sikkim Casinos Act, 2002 to open a live casino within the next two to three months. Delta Corp is yet to make an announcement regarding a specific project although a spokesperson did say this last December.

“Sikkim is another opportunity that one can look at. We can consider Sikkim because there already the casino licences are existing and one could explore the opportunity there. Whenever there is an opportunity we definitely would look at considering it.”

锡金已有两家赌场投入运营，其中麻将赌场在梅费尔度假村运营，锡金赌场在皇家广场酒店运营。分析人士认为，登宗摄政酒店的赌场将受益于更方便且更具战略意义的位置，因为它更靠近甘托克市。

The hotel’s website said it “is the only 5 Star Luxury Mountain Retreat in Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, at a height of 6,000 feet, situated within a 10 acre sprawling, century-old, wooded, family-owned property, which offers the finest views of the city and the pristine splendour of the undulating hills, valleys and a myriad streams that course through it, with the towering Mt. Kanchenjunga peak in the background.”

Sikkimis a small state in northwest of the country, bordered by Bhutan, Tibet and Nepal. It has also opened up betting shops across the state. It is one of three states, along with Goa and Daman, that is allowed to offer casinos.

达美航空最近获得了在果阿 Deltin Suites 酒店开发陆上赌场的许可，这标志着该公司首次进军果阿的陆上博彩业。

Delta, who currently operates two floating casinos in Goa; the Deltin Royale and Deltin Jack, said the casino would be built alongside its five-star, 106-room hotel. The Goan government said last month that it would allows Delta’s MV Royale Flotel vessel to remain in operation in the Mandovi River whilst it finalises a new location for offshore casinos to operate from.

Delta Chairman Jaydev Mody said last year: “We are looking to tap the Sikkim market as well as some international markets like Nepal and Sri Lanka. We have already acquired property for the casino resort in Sri Lanka and the company is exploring the emerging Sri Lankan gaming market which his poised for rapid growth. Indian visitors make up the largest percentage of total visitors to Sri Lanka accounting for 28 per cent of total Sri Lanka tourists.”