Masks. Screens. Extra Space. More Cleaning. No Chips. The Future of Casinos in Goa?

As countries across the world take ♍tentative steps out of their COVID-19 ꦚlockdowns, businesses are looking at new ways to protect customers and staff as the world adjusts to a new normal.

An article from sets out actions casinos in the country are set to adopt 🐈to reduce the risk of coronavirus spreading.

Could these methods also be employed in Goa and other legal gambl🌼😼ing establishments in India?

Casino visitors in the US can expect to have their temperature taken before being allowed in. And there is also the possibility in time if a rapid b✃lood prick test can identify coronavirus straightaway t𒁃hat players may also be required to take one.

The days of bustling casino floors will en🌳d, at least temporarily. Every second slot machine is likely to be taken out of service to give more space, and every other table💙 could be removed.

The Hard Rock is suggesting each customer will have t♕o stay 10-15 metres away from anyo꧒ne else.

Not only ♕will wearing face masks be mandatory, but it is also possible screens will separate staff from customers at the bars, and even plexiglass barriers between deale🌃rs and players at the tables.

A team of cleaners will be on standby every shift to continually wip✅e down door handles, tables, and other surfaces. One Las Vegas casino is even planning to hand out plastic sticks for people to use to press elevator buttons.

Others are p🌼lanning to give hand sanitizers to guests on arrival with disposable gloves another option.

Casinos bosses are struggling with the issue 😼of using chips, 🥃dice, and cash. It's not a casino without these, but all are easy ways for coronavirus to spread.

How these measures would work in Indian casinos is up for de🃏bate. Certainly, the offshore casinos in Goa would struggle to keep space between customers.

And the proposals floated by US casinos have to be balanced by the fact people are u👍nlikely to want to visit casinos if the social𒅌 and playing experience is so drastically different.

The river casinos of Goa have been given another six-month stay of execution recently, but there is now a real poss𝓀ibiliཧty they may never open in the same way again.

Matt Maddox, CEO of Wynn Casino in Las Vegas, has said his com🎃pany is losing $3million a day because of the pandemic.♔ The industry trade group in the US states gaming in the country is worth $240 billion, employing 1.7 million people in 40 states.

Governments too will be keen to see them up and run▨ning - in 2016 alone, gaming taxes contributed $8.85 billion to US stat𝓰e and local tax revenues.