The European Casino Association and the UK National Casino Forum join forces

Ron Goudsmit, Chairman of the ECA praised this new membership stating: “We are delighted to extend our membership to the UK. Having the UK in the ECA is very important because of the size of the market and the strength of its industry”.

He continued: “For some time now the ECA and NCF have been promoting equivalent agendas. This renewed membership, which was sealed during the General Assembly of the ECA in Copenhagen last week, will reinforce ECA’s main pledge to be the unified voice for Europe’s licensed casino industry”.

Tracy Damestani, CEO of NCF, stated, “We are very pleased to be a member of the ECA. Throughout the years, ECA and NCF have maintained positive relations and we are looking forward to these relations becoming even stronger, and joining forces to fulfil our common industry regulatory and policy endeavours together”.

She continued: “ECA and NCF share the same aims of promoting a positive agenda for a healthy, well regulated, responsible and economically sustainable casino industry. Working together will strengthen our influence in Europe".

NCF is active on both the political and regulatory levels in the UK. NCF and its members value the positive working relationships it has with the UK regulator, the government and stakeholders.

Since the 1st of January 2014, NCF became the sole representative trade association for the land-based casino industry in the UK. It represents over 98% of the UK land-based casino market, which is a liberalised market, with operators from, not only the UK, but also from USA, Australia, Malaysia and Europe.  In total, 147 casinos are operating in the UK providing direct employment to circa 15,000 people and indirect employment to a further 30,000.