US Industry Wonders: What Should Tomorrow’s Casino Floor Be?
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Walk into a casino today, and chances are it won’t look that much different than it did in the 1942 movie “Casablanca” when Humphrey Bogart made his way through the gambling tables in the smoke-filled room.
Sure, the slot machines are larger, louder and flashier than they were back then. But the central fact remains that the casino floor of today is not all that different than the casino floor of yesteryear.
What the casino floor of the future should look like is a question the gambling industry has wrestled with for decades.
And it still has no definitive answers.
The topic was discussed Monday at the East Coast Gaming Congress, a major gambling conference in Atlantic City.
One big question: How to get young people interested in what casinos have to offer.
“It’s tough to get that kid out of his parents’ basement, and casino games aren’t going to do it,” said Joe Lupo, president of Atlantic City’s Hard Rock casino, referring to young adults.
