According to the statement, the world online gambling market is set to grow from $ 345 billion in net earnings in 2007 to $ 433 billion in 2012. Yet, the GBGC caution, this development will be chiefly in the Internet online gambling industry and will be counteract by a pessimistic trend in land based online casinos profits.

"The hold back in the USA," GBGC Chief Managerial Warwick Bartlett whispered, "will strike the pockets of Americans, as well as Las Vegas will sense the effect of that down with high energy costs and a transport system dependent on road and space travel.

"The U.S. has not invest adequately in high speed railing, and destination resorts, going onward, will experience as the cost of carbon base fuels continue to be an issue of price and supply."