Greetings!
QUESTION
The request is to find contact information for 15+ foreign-based
persons or companies who take players to land-based casinos. For
example: Alan Hughes, Casino Tours Abroad, Wembley, United Kingdom --
alan@xposia.com, http://www.xposia.com.
ANSWER AND SOURCES
I found the following contacts. Note that, in some cases, the junket
service is closely associated with the casino:
1. Martha, Costa Rica Tours, San Jose, Costa Rica --
martha@fishingcostarica.net, 011-506-396-1979,
http://www.fishingcostarica.net/casino_junkets.htm
2. Quebec Packages, Cabaret du Casino Package, 651, Notre-Dame Ouest,
Suite 260, Montréal, Québec H3C 1H9, Canada -- (514) 384-3697,
forfaits@forfaits-quebec.qc.ca,
http://www.forfaits-quebec.qc.ca/menu/english/contact_us.html
3. Burswood Nominees Pty Ltd, Great Eastern Highway, Burswood, Western
Australia 6100, PO Box 500, Victoria Park Western Australia 6979. Sue
Quinn, Marketing Enquiries, Tel: (+61 8) 9362 7760, Email:
burswood@burswood.com.au,
Contacts: http://www.burswood.com.au/content.asp?area=utilities§ion=sitemap.
*** Note recent statement by the Burswood CEO:
"During the year we undertook further restructuring of our
international operations division, which was successful in boosting
overall junket and player numbers, as well as improving turnover
levels from certain countries."
http://www.burswood.com.au/investor/speeches2.asp?int=62
4. Sky International Casinos are regulated, land-based resort
hotel-casinos located in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. For direct
reservations and discounted hotel rates or junket information contact
us at info@skyinternationalcasinos.com, +27 31 303 9664 (800 4547 009
toll free from USA/Canada). Web page:
http://www.skyinternationalcasinos.com/
5. Costa Rica Uncovered. Nationwide. Casino Junket services are part
of the package. Web page: http://costaricauncovered.com/. The
request for casino junket service is part of the trip booking form:
http://costaricauncovered.com/book-trip-form.htm. Email:
casinojunketstours@costaricauncovered.com
6. Casino Junket Deals. This junket service is located in the lobby
of the Hotel Casino Del Rey, San Jose, Costa Rica. Address: 1st Ave &
9th St, one block southeast of Parque Morazan. Tel: (506) 257-7800
(USA toll free: 1-888-972-7272).
7. International Casino Promotions Club (ICPC). This is the
entertainment division of Magion Productions, Ltd., located in Malta.
Email: juscot@vol.net.mt. ICPC offers an international junket package
that brings players to casinos in the following cities:
Budapest-- Hungary
Bucharest -- Romania
Cyprus -- Northern Cyprus
Gammarth, Souse, Hamamet --Tunisia
Istanbul, Kemer, Ankara, Antalya, Izmir -- Turkey
Las Vegas, Atlantic City -- USA
Le-Bulu -- France
Marrakeesh -- Morocco
Monte Carlo -- Monte Carlo
Novigrad, Pula -- Croatia
Oracle -- Malta
Patra -- Greece
Prague -- Czech Republic
St. Petersburg -- Russia
Varna -- Bulgaria
Source: http://www.mangion.com.mt/entertainment/icpcpromo.html
8. Casino Junket Club. Based in Greece. Organises casino excursions
all over the world. For example, in two Greek locations:
* Casino Xanthi -- Standing at the edge of a forest in the area
of Lefkos Pyrgos (White Tower), northwest of Xanthi, and a five-minute
drive from the town center. Casino Xanthi is located in the area of
Thrace, at the northeast of Greece. Address: Latomion, XANTHI TOWN
671 00, THRAKI, XANTHI, Telephones: (+30541) 70900, 70901, 70902,
E-mail: casino_x@hit360.com or info@casinoxanthi.gr. URL:
www.casinoxanthi.gr
* Hyatt Regency Casino, Thessaloniki -- Located next to
Makedonia International Airport and 15 minutes to city center.
Designed after the famous Las Vegas Strip. 12 km Thessaloniki-Airport,
55103 Thessaloniki, Greece, Tel: +30 2310 491 234, Email:
casino@hyatt.gr,
URL: http://thessaloniki.regencycasino.hyatt.com/
Source: http://www.250000.com/global/Europe/Greece/Recreation_and_Sports/Gambling/
9. Casino Tours, Ltd. Junket services for several Bahamas casinos.
Atlantis-Paradise Island, P.O. BOX 6311 SS, PARADISE ISLAND, BAHAMAS.
Email: Casino@CasinoTours.com. Source:
https://www.casinotoursltd.com/Casinos/Casinos.asp?PageID=CasinoByLoc&CasinoArea=Bahamas?Style=New
10. Casino Tours Ltd. Junket services for French Riviera casinos.
Les Casino de Monte-Carlo, PLACE DU CASINO MONTE CARLO, MONACO.
Telephone: 800-542-0819. Source:
https://www.casinotoursltd.com/Casinos/Casinos.asp
***** Note: Casino Tours, Ltd. has been in the casino "junket"
business for over 24 years. It provides junket services to casinos
both in the USA and worldwide. See
https://www.casinotoursltd.com/AboutUs/AboutUs.asp.
11. Royal Cabana Casino, J.E. Irausquin Boulevard 250, PO Box 4216,
Oranjestad, Aruba, Dutch Caribbean, Telephone: 297-875001, E-mail:
info@royalcabanacasinoaruba.com. If they exist, the junkets servicing
this casino are invisible. Perhaps because La Cabana is mostly a
"family" resort with limited access?
12. Taleon Club, Russia, Saint-Petersburg,, Moika river emb., house
59. Telephone (812) 315-76-45, 312-53-73. This place has a "casino
junket manager", Mr. Mehmet Oz. His job is to "manage" the casino
player representatives. For example, they recently had a group from
Turkey, and they have the following statement in their news page:
"Another satisfied Junket: This time from Turkey, led by Mr. Hakan
Kushku, all first time visitors who thoroughly enjoyed their stay -
which is quiet something considering the weather!"
(http://www.taleon.ru/news120301_eng.htm).
13. Grand Bahama Vacations (www.gbvac.com) has carried more than 2.9
million visitors to Grand Bahama Island. For reservations and
information, visit your local travel agency or call (800) 545-1300.
For casino junket information, call (800) 432-2294. Visit their
website at www.gbvac.com.
14. Successful management of casino junket programmes in conjunction
with Legenda Hotel and Resort and Legenda Condotel at Subic Bay,
Philippines. Trends for casino junket industry in Asia. Source:
http://www.capitaline.com/cs0413.htm.
15. There are "corporate junkets" at the Ritz Carlton San Juan Hotel,
Spa & Casino, 6961 Avenue Of The Governors Isla Verde, Carolina, San
Juan 00979, Puerto Rico. Tel: 800-241-3333, 797-253-1700.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g147320-d148042-r707297-Ritz_Carlton_San_Juan_Hotel_Spa_Casino-San_Juan_Puerto_Rico.html.
Note: I was not able to find the term "corporate junkets" anywhere
else.
16. Icitours, Porto, Portugal. Rua Oliveira Martins, 167, 4200 Porto,
Portugal. Telephone: +351.22.5073030. This company has a "PORTO BY
NIGHT AND THE CASINO" package. Sounds like a casino junket service.
Source:
http://actionsites.com/icitours/icit02.html
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
The source URL(s) for each information item 1 to 16 is given above.
Some additional references that may be of interest:
[1] The Innovation Group -- Summary of marketing outlook studies for
casino and junket revenues worldwide.
http://www.theinnovationgroup.net/projects_international.asp
[2] "Everything's Bubbling, But We Don't Know What the Ingredients
Are" — Casino Politics and Policy in the Periphery, By Julie E. Scott,
Research Fellow, Centre for Leisure and Tourism Studies, University of
North London, London, UK. EGambling: Electronic Journal of Gambling
Issues, Issue 4, May 2001. URL:
http://www.camh.net/egambling/issue4/research/
[3] The Casino Junket, by Courtenay Thompson, Magazine of the
Institute of Internal Auditors, February 1999:61–63. Reprints of
Internal Auditor articles are available for a nominal fee by calling
Midori Imhoof, +1 (407) 937-1100.
http://www.theiia.org/ecm/magazine.cfm?doc_id=1814
SEARCH STRATEGY
1. Started with www.xposia.com, as suggested by the customer.
2. Google queries such as <"casino junket" -online>, <junket
"land-based casino" -online>.
3. Tried to find a worldwide directory of casino junket services, but
was not able to find a comprehensive one.
4. Also tried to find a worldwide society or association of junket
services, but only found one in the U.K.
5. Experimented with query terms such as "companies players ladbased
casinos" and "junketeer", with poor results.
6. The words "casino" (or "land-based casino") and "junket" are the
best keywords.
7. Consistently used "-online" to focus on land-based casinos (though
none of the search engines paid much attention to it).
RESEARCH SUMMARY
There are thousands of junket services worldwide. Some of them are
independent businesses. Others are owned by, or are closely
associated with, the casinos or hotel-casinos they serve by bringing
player groups. The answer provided has 16 junket foreign-based
services listed, but actually many more can be found in the web pages
listed.
It is not clear how a casino junket service is licensed. The Casino
Tours Ltd. web page (www.casinotours.com), and others, mention that
they are "licensed casino junket representatives", but no information
is given as to what this license means, or how to obtain one. It
could be that most countries have no requirement for licensing of
casino junket representatives, or that the requirements vary widely
from one country to another.
Let me know if you have any questions or need further clarification.
Best regards,
pelican-ga |
Clarification of Answer by
pelican-ga
on
20 Nov 2002 12:12 PST
Hello findfetch-ga,
After reading your comments, I certainly agree that the answer needs
more work. Hope you can help me to make sure that the revised answer
will be exactly what you need. Please allow me some further
clarification of your original question and your comments.
1..Must be a person/company who specifically sends players to a casino
for purposes of playing, not as a tour or package.(Cannot include the
casinos as this is the destination company.)
====> [A] The original question stated "I need a list of Casino player
representatives ... based outside of the USA who take players to
casinos." Please help me to understand the difference between
*sending* players to casinos for purposes of playing, and *taking*
players to a casino for the same purpose. I thought that, whether you
send them, or go with them as part of a tour or package, the point is
that you are bringing customers willing to spend their money in
gambling.
====> [B] As I pointed out in the answer, I found several cases in
which the person/company who brings additional players to the casino
is closely associated with the casino. Sometimes they have an office
or a table in the lobby of the casino and/or are employed by the
casino. Just to make sure, are you saying that you are interested
*only* in persons/companies who are paid by the casino but otherwise
are independent of the casino?
2. Must be out of the USA handling foreign players.
====> [C] I understand, you want foreign-based and land-based. But,
in the original question, you wrote: "Specifically must not be US
based but can take their players to Las Vegas, Atlantic city etc."
Therefore, I thought that (a) you did not want to exclude
foreign-based junkets who bring players to American casinos, (b) you
did not want to exclude foreign-based junkets who are Americans, (c)
you did not want to exclude foreign-based junkets who work for an
American junket service, and (d) you did not want to exclude Americans
living abroad who are brought to play in the USA by any foreign-based
junket, whether or not the foreign-based junket is an American
citizen. I would be grateful if you help me to define exactly what is
the subset of junkets that you want to be included.
With reference to the specific answers
1. Martha - Costa Rica - Ok
2. Quebec - - will check
3. Burswood Nominees - This is a casino annual report.
----> Item {3} Yes, but the CEO states that they are recruiting
junkets. If so, would they be willing to tell us who they are? Else,
are they listed somewhere? What case of [C] is this?
4. Sky Int Casinos - This is a casino (they look for junkets, not
send them)
----> Item {4} Same as item {3}
5. Costa Rica - This is a casino " " "
----> Item {5} Same as item {3}
6. Casino Junket deals - " " "
----> Item {6} Same as item {3}
7. ICPC - - Great site
8. Casino Junket club - Casino Xanthi and Hyatt are both casinos.
----> Item {8} "Casino Junket Club" is the company that provides
junkets for both Casino Xanthi and Hyatt Regency Casino.
9. Casino tours -- Is a junket company but USA based.
----> Item {9} Casino Tours, Ltd. provides junket services for several
Bahamas casinos out of their office in the Bahamas. Is this the
[C](c) case?
10. Casino tours ltd - " " " "
----> Item {10} Casino Tours, Ltd. provides junket services for a
casino in Monaco out of their office in Monaco. Is this the [C](c)
case?
11. Royal Cabana Casino - Is a casino
----> Item {11} Goodness, this one should not have been included!
12. Taleon club - Is a casino
----> Item {12} Same as item {3}
13. Grand Bahama - Travel site, not junkets
----> Item {13} Same as item {3}. In fact, I just called the "casino
junket information" 800 number. After listening to the menu, I
pressed "2" for "player development". They can bring me down to play,
either in a group or by myself. They now call it "player
development", but it is the same thing as "junket services", i.e.,
their job is to bring people down to play.
14. Trend report - Report only, no relevance.
----> Item {14} Same as item {3} .... they state are hiring junkets
.... if we call the Legenda Casino, I suspect they will have an option
to reach them ... but a long distance call to the Philippines is
expensive ...
15. Cororate junkets - Not casino related - just rooms.
----> Item {15} Same as item {3} Never mind the term "corporate
junkets". I called their 800 number, and in this case the junkets
cannot be reached at the hotel, but she gave me their phone number to
call them directly ...
16. Icitours - tours info not junkets
----> Item {16} The icitours web page specifically states that one of
their packages provides "Access to the game room where you can try
your luck in the slot machines or in a gambling table." The purpose
of the tour is to show the group around, then bring them to the casino
to play. Sounds to me like both "tours" *and* "junkets". Again,
please consider [A].
As can be seen from above, the majority of the answers do not quite
fit the criteria.
====> [D] Obviously, my understanding of the criteria was ambiguous.
I should have requested clarification of the criteria before posting
the answer.
====> [E] I got the impression that, whether they work independently
or for companies, most junkets do not have a long career working full
time as junkets. Do they tend to come and go, i.e., is there a high
turnover rate in this profession?
====> [F] Are you interested in unemployed junkets? Are you
interested in casinos that need junkets but cannot find them?
====> [G] It would be helpful to know how you are going to use the
list of junkets. This is a suggestion, not a request. Please
disregard if this is a clarification you cannot provide.
Could you have another crack at it and try to add to the couple of
pure junket sites that you found?
====> [H] Absolutely! I do need your inputs on [A] to [F], [G] if
possible. But I will keep working on the answer until you are totally
satisfied
Sincerely,
pelican-ga
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