HIT to Build Casino near Austria

Sentilj, 19 December

Gaming company HIT has launched a campaign for a new gaming centre in Sentilj, a town in NE Slovenia on the border with Austria.

The entire entertainment complex, which will be worth between EUR 70m and 75m, is to employ around 300 people, HIT chairman Branko Tomazic told the press on Monday.
The plan for the new centre, of which the main facility will be a casino with 570 gaming machines and 18 live tables, is based on HIT's strategy of combining different forms of entertainment.
The facility will also include a multipurpose hall for 1,000 visitors, restaurants, bars and a hotel offering 90 rooms. There will be 800 outdoor and 200 indoor parking lots.
The company expects the centre to attract more than half a million visitors a year. Construction works are to begin in the middle of 2006, with the aim being to complete the entire complex in 2007.
Sentilj Mayor Edvard Cagran said he was aware of the importance of this project, which is the result of five years of talks between Sentilj and HIT, for the municipality, especially because of its high unemployment rate.
This project is a part of an aggressive expansion drive by the Nova Gorica-based company. In 2006 alone, HIT plans to invest EUR 120m into the renovation of existing and construction of new facilities.
HIT is currently renovating the Park gaming centre in Nova Gorica and building a new hotel near its largest entertainment venue, Perla, also in Nova Gorica.
In the January-October period, the company generated revenues of SIT 44.8bn (EUR 186.98m), up 16% on the same period last year, and made a profit of SIT 6.3bn (EUR 26.29m).
More than 1.3 million guests visited the company's casinos around Slovenia in the first ten months of this year.

HIT to Build Casino near Austria

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