The year 2007 has been a year of turmoil for the UK bingo industry, the introduction of very strict new gaming regulations and the smoking ban coming in tops for blame on the whole, with the ridiculous taxation discrimination following on a close second.
All in all it seems that there have been many ups and downs for the industry and some clubs have been closing down, while others have been thinking outside the box and coming up with new and ever more innovative ways to get bums in the seats of the land based bingo clubs throughout the country.
A stiff competitor for market share in the UK bingo industry has also been online bingo, although many of the well established bingo brands have admitted that their online bingo ventures have been responsible for saving the skin of their land based industry sector, and most are in agreement that online bingo is not the root cause of the shocking drop in profits for the industry as a whole. However, 2008 remains to be seen as the decider whether the UK land based bingo industry will sink or swim, so I suppose that we shall have to wait and see how it all pans out before any real opinion can be expressed.