Since Coljuegos debuts, the gambling industry in Colombia has accumulate 3.5 billion pesos in collection for exploitation rights in national gambling games (casinos, bingos, 'online' gambling, among others), which means an increase of 124 percent since 2012.
“Only in 2019, the collection amounted to $ 667,775 COP million, which translates into an increase of 16.2% compared to 2018 when the collection was $ 574,660 COP million; likewise, between December 2015 and 2019, the collection amounted to 75 percent”. As the president of Coljuegos, Juan B. Pérez Hidalgo recently stated
When the breakdown by type of game is done, the localized games (casinos and bingos) continue being the great contributors when contributing last year with a 57 percent of the collection by rights of exploitation, that is equivalent to 382.182 million pesos.
They are followed by the Super Astro, with a 14 percent contribution of 91,042 million pesos and the Baloto and Revancha with a 12 percent equivalent to 83,390 million pesos, during the term of 2019. They also made an important contribution to the health of the Colombians 'online' gambling that contributed 10 percent of the total with a collection of 68,480 million pesos.
According to Pérez Hidalgo, the behaviour of the collection for exploitation rights of each of the gambling industry was positive. “The localized games, for example, grew 11 percent in revenue in the last year, going from $ 345,793 million in 2018 to $ 382,182 million in 2019, in a scenario in which we have subscribed, with 2,752 establishments operating throughout the country and 88,546 slot machines available, ”he said.
A similar result was obtained in the Baloto y Revancha game in terms of collection for exploitation rights at the end of 2019, when it grew 12 percent to $ 83,390 million; In 2018 it had concluded at $ 76,483 million pesos.
"We must remember that currently the highest accumulated in history is presented in Revancha with an amount of 45,300 million pesos," added the President of Coljuegos who also recalled that last year the accumulated Baloto fell in Cali with a prize of 69,500 million pesos.
For its part, the Super Astro game registered a 15 percent increase in the collection for exploitation rights, from a total of 78.983 million pesos in 2018 to 91.043 million pesos in 2019.
