I am sure we all grew up with action movies that were set in a casino. One example is the famous James Bond movie Casino Royale (2006). Well, in the year 2025 gambling casinos are still being affected by films, series and media content.
Melco Resorts is a gambling company, one of the biggest in Asia and is based in Hong Kong. They have numerous properties all over Asia and some in Europe. They are predicting that with the release of the new season of the series
The White Lotus, set at the Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui in Thailand, that Thailand will be visited by more gamblers. Melco Resorts is looking at Thailand to further expand their casino empire and believes that a popular show can invite and entice tourists into visiting Thailand and its casinos and resorts.
Thailand is just finishing up their casino law and if approved, 5 casinos will be allowed to operate in the country one being owned by Melco Resorts. Do you think that a show can influence not only the tourists but as well as the government's perception and decisions about gambling and casinos? Or do you think the impact of a film or a show isn't enough to sway people?
The media is the biggest tool at big companies and big corporate and also big governments in order to manipulate the general population. If this Melco Resorts is using a lot of their influence to change a outcome to their liking using the media is the best they can do to achieve such thing. The media influences anything from making a victim at war look like the aggressor to making you think that vaccines of Covid were good for you while we are seeing massive heart attack deaths all over the world and this is all happening after 2021 which sounds strange doesn't it and so if media can achieve such things they can easily achieve to give a casino owner the reputation they need to get in business even in places where is not so easy to install yourself in. Media for me is the greatest power of nowadays, it influences anything and anyone except a very few smart people.