Global Gaming Expo: Organizers Say 2022 Conference Feels A Lot Like 2019

LAS VEGAS – Monday was the start-off for this year’s Global Gaming Expo (G2E) inward Las Vegas, and inward some ways, it felt as if we were indorse in time. Say, like triplet years or so.

After simply 13,000 industry professionals tended to(p) and 233 companies had exhibits at last-place year’s expo, which was still below some COVID-19 restrictions, the numbers for this year’s rule at The Venetian Expo were up sharply.

More than 350 companies were scene upwards their spaces Mon inward the Expo Hall. That opens Tuesday forenoon after the keynote session featuring sestet top side gaming manufacture executives. Korbi Carrison, G2E case vice chairwoman for Reed Exhibitions, told reporters companies will follow displaying unexampled one-armed bandit simple machine games and cabinets, digital payment platforms, and iGaming and sports betting platforms.

This looks a lot the like 2019 did,” Carrison said. “One difference is that the get-up-and-go this yr is off the charts compared to 2019. Of course, we weren’t expecting the events that happened after that.”

Reed Exhibitions organizes the event inwards conjunction with the American Gaming Association. (AGA).

Last yr G2E resumed as an in-person event after the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizers to proceed virtual-only inwards 2020. The 2021 group discussion also featured virtual elements as well.

As registrations were ease beingness processed, organizers did non have a list of attendees to portion out with reporters on Monday. Still, they’re hopeful attendance testament live closer to the 2019 event, which drew more than 27,000 people.

Conventions Not 100% Back in Vegas Yet

If G2E 2022 ends upward drafting close to its 2019 numbers, so it would follow forrader of the stride inwards terms of Las Vegas’ retrieval from COVID-19.

According to data from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, pattern totals are upward significantly from 2021. However, it’s non rearwards in time to pre-pandemic levels.

In August, Vegas attracted 406,500 rule attendees. That’s up 20.5% from August 2021. However, it’s 38.2% let down than what the neighborhood drew inwards formula traffic 3 years ago. For the foremost eight months of the year, nearly 3.2 billion pattern visitors hold amount to Las Vegas. That’s downwards from 4.7 billion o'er the same full point in 2019, a 32.4% decrease.

Overall visitation is down, too, but non quite as much. Through August, the surface area has attracted 25.3 gazillion tourists. Still, that’s well-nigh 3.1 gazillion – or 11.1% – fewer than inwards the number one eighter months of 2019.

Gaming leaders though, escort a full retrieval on the horizon. At a Deutsche Bank conference utmost month, MGM Resorts International CFO Jonathan Halkyard said his keep company is seeing a “return to normalcy” that looks ilk it testament preserve substantially into next year.

Keynotes for Tuesday and Wednesday

Tuesday’s events will head start with AGA President and CEO Bill Henry Miller gift the res publica of the industry address. Following that, Bally’s Corp. Chairman Soo Kim, William Penn Entertainment CEO and President John Jay Snowden, Wynn Resorts CEO Craig Billings, Circa Resort and Casino Owner and CEO Derek Stevens, FanDuel CEO Amy Howe, and DraftKings co-founder and CEO Jason Robins will read the microscope stage for a keynote roundtable.

Kim and Snowden will verbalize near the regional marketplace inward gaming. Billings and Wallace Stevens testament discuss the nation of gaming in Nevada and Las Vegas. Howe and Robins will share their thoughts on where iGaming and sports betting.

On Wednesday, Las Vegas Raiders President Sandra Douglass Morgan and Barstool Sports CEO Erika Ayers Nardini will speak with Miller and bear a conversation virtually the evolving relationship between sports and gaming.

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