Will Online Bingo Spell The End For Bingo Halls?

Prior to the advent of the Internet, the only way to enjoy a game of bingo was to head over to your nearest bingo hall. However, now bingo games are available at your fingertips 24 hours a day. The rise of online bingo has certainly made a lot of players and site owners happy, but it has created a wealth of headaches for operators of traditional bingo halls. In reality, this really isn't a fair fight. Online bingo sites have far fewer expenses as compared to a brick and mortar bingo hall, and this leads to serious competitive advantages on the part of bingo sites.

This competitive advantage can be seen in the lucrative bingo bonuses offered by most online bingo sites in addition to the free bingo games which you ordinarily won't see in a bingo hall. Additionally, the recent smoking ban has sent more players away from bingo halls as they stay at home playing online bingo. Sites like Posh Bingo, 888ladies, Moon Bingo and Tombola now dominate the bingo landscape, and it seems like a new online bingo site is being born almost everyday. This does not bode well for bingo halls.

Which Bingo recently published an interesting article which quantified that the average online player spends 12 hours each week playing bingo. The amount of time spent on average by bingo hall players is far less. So will this all spell the end of bingo halls? Probably not. There will always be players who enjoy personal interaction with their bingo buddies in the real 3D world. However, as the large amount of closings of bingo halls illustrates - online bingo sites are certainly putting a huge dent in bingo hall business.

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