{"id":79,"date":"2019-10-09T13:16:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T13:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=79"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:30:56","slug":"thailand-gambling-ban-fails-as-participation-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-gambling-ban-fails-as-participation-increases","title":{"rendered":"Thailand gambling ban fails as participation increases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a new survey, Thailand gambling participation is on the rise unmasking gambling prohibition as an abject failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thailand.- This Monday,\u00a0Thai media\u00a0reported on the results of a new gambling participation survey by the Research Centre for Social and Business Development.<strong> <\/strong>The survey, queried a total of 44,050 residents across 77 provinces aged 15+, showed that 57% of the population engaged in some form of gambling over the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study highlighted that <strong>2.4%<\/strong> of this year&#8217;s gamblers were between 15-18. <strong>36.3%<\/strong> of them in the 19-25 bracket and around <strong>42.2%<\/strong> were seniors (those aged 60+).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Football<\/strong> bets were the most popular gambling option, with annual turnover estimated at around <strong>\u20ac 4,8 billion<\/strong>. In addition, the so-called&nbsp;\u2018underground lotteries\u2019&nbsp;generated <strong>\u20ac 4,6 billion<\/strong>. And the state-run lottery&#8217;s sales ranked no higher than third at <strong>\u20ac 4,5 billion<\/strong>. Card games were also popular among local gamblers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thailand\u2019s gamblers have long complained about the unappealing <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/thailand-lottery-reformed\"><em><strong>government-approved lottery options<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, both in terms of prizes awarded and variety of games. The government has occasionally responded by vowing to\u00a0boost the state-run lottery\u2019s appeal\u00a0through new products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thai authorities continue to\u00a0crack down on operators<em>\u00a0<\/em>serving gamblers without local permission. Last August, Thai authorities warned <strong>3.3 million citizens<\/strong> that the safety of their\u00a0personal information had likely been compromised. As a consequence of them gambling with internationally licensed online operators. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new survey, Thailand gambling participation is on the rise unmasking gambling prohibition as an abject failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"A recent survey indicates 57% gambling participation in Thailand, underscoring the ineffectiveness of current prohibition policies. Illegal football betting and 'underground lotteries' collectively generate significantly higher annual turnover than the state-run lottery, raising critical concerns regarding regulatory compliance, potential revenue leakage, and consumer data security risks associated with engagement with internationally licensed online operators.","focusai_entities":"Research Centre for Social and Business Development","focusai_location":"Thailand","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Framework Impact","query":"What specific changes to Thailand's regulatory framework would be required to effectively transition this substantial grey market GGR into a compliant, taxed, and regulated iGaming ecosystem?"},{"label":"Operator Entry Strategy","query":"Given the reported consumer preferences and significant illegal market turnover, what market entry strategies and product localization efforts would be critical for B2C operators considering a future regulated Thai market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,157,16333],"tags":[96,229,337,342],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-asia","tag-gambling","tag-regulation","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19784,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/19784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}