With only four paragraphs, the proposal of the Ceará parliamentarian defends the modification of the General Tourism Law to include hotels with a casino among tourist service providers. At the same time, the proposal aims to modify the Criminal Offenses Law to allow the exploitation of games of chance when carried out in the aforementioned casino hotels.

Justification
In the justification, the deputy Eduardo Bismarck registers that “it is public knowledge that gambling activity in Brazil is widely practiced, even if it is illegal. Thus, the best way out is not to prohibit it, but to regulate its application in specific places to avoid perverse results, to promote tourism in the country and, even so, to supply the public coffers with its contributions ”.

The congressman believes that decriminalizing casino hotels and including them among tourism service providers are valuable measures in times of economic crisis, mainly due to the covid-19 pandemic, "when we need to encourage tourism and seek other means of collection for public coffers ”.

In the justification, the deputy mentions the Brazilian Institute of Legal Gaming - IJL on two occasions. The first with data from unregulated games operated in Brazil.

According to the Brazilian Institute of Legal Games, in the case of gambling as a whole, illegal games move R $ 20 billion per year in Brazil and, with their legalization, this value could practically triple, according to the president of the Institute:

“Brazil, in 2014, has a GDP of R $ 5.5 billion. If we consider 1%, our potential betting market is around 55 billion and 200 million reais. If we consider that average tax rate of 30%, we are talking about a collection of R $ 16.5 billion per year ”.

And the second quote refers to the Brazilians who occupy and support the Mercosur casinos.

“Much of the tourist income in some Latin American cities known for their casinos, such as Viña del Mar (Chile), Punta del Este (Uruguay) and the triple border of Foz do Iguaçu in Argentina and Paraguay, comes from Brazilian tourists. It is estimated, for example, that they represent 70% of the occupancy and 50% of the income of Conrad Punta del Este Resort & Casino, according to the Jogo Legal Institute ”.