The geography of gambling access: insights from a saturated central european market

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RIV/61989592:15310/25:73633297
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-025-11521-3" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-025-11521-3</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10708-025-11521-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10708-025-11521-3</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The geography of gambling access: insights from a saturated central european market
Original language description
Accessibility to gambling venues constitutes a critical dimension through which geographical research contributes to gambling studies. This investigation examined the relationship between accessibility to diverse gambling forms and residents' participation patterns, attitudes (ATGS), and problem gambling severity (PGSI) within the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic—a European context where gambling research has received comparatively less attention than studies from China, the USA, or Australia. Employing GIS network analysis, we calculated temporal accessibility metrics for various gambling venue types, subsequently applying cluster analysis to identify four distinct municipal groupings based on these accessibility profiles. Analysis of gambling behaviour among 2,447 residents revealed variations in participation and attitudes across clusters, though these differences did not reach statistical significance. This finding suggests potential spatial saturation, wherein the high density of gambling opportunities—with lottery outlets accessible within an average of 1.7 min, betting shops within 4.5 min, gambling halls within 9 min, and casinos within 11.8 min—may have created a ceiling effect where additional venues no longer influence participation rates.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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