Ballys Magazine November 2017 Bally's Magazine November 2017 | Page 18

18 October - November 2017 THE DEPTHS OF COLOMBO'S NIGHT LIFE Bally’s Casino Identifies with Global Trends and Best Practices – Simon Best Q A Where do most of your clients come from? We have players from many countries including India, the Middle East, Singapore, China, Malaysia and the Philippines. Sri Lanka is also luckily located at a very central point in terms of air travel and with the many benefits and facilities offered here, it has no doubt grown immensely popular amongst our clients who are increasing in number all of the time. . We conduct regular Gaming events to help keep our clients engaged and focus on special periods such as the Eid season, Diwali, the Chinese New Year and even Christmas where many people grab the moment of the holiday period and travel just for this. work here. Over 95% are locals and a number of international staff holding executive positions here. As my focus is to protect this business and impart knowledge to Bally’s in Sri Lanka, we have also recruited experienced Nepalese and Filipino Dealers. Our VP Marketing and Business Development Manager is someone with over 25 years experience in the gaming industry and we have also recently recruited an Assistant Slot Manager from the Philippines because of his extensive technical knowledge in gaming machines. Out of all the employees, we have 450 dealers who cater to our clients directly. They operate from 100 tables out of which 60 are dedicated to the card game of Baccarat. This card game in particular is very popular in Asia. www.ballysmagazine.com Q A Other than working to improve standards of policies at Bally’s what else do you have lined up in the pipeline? We look towards introducing new games and side bets on games such as Roulette and soon will have the Lucky Ball side bet and Blaze tables introduced. In keeping with taking on precautionary measures, we have recently introduced Deck Checkers and chipping machines to help protect the casinos assets as well as increase productivity. We are proud to say that this is a very successful casino and is amongst the best in South Asia today. B