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The Casino and the City These days, a casino is a status symbol for a city, another symbol of its identity and a non-stop centre for entertainment, 365 days a year. It provides a wide variety of alternative entertainment, relaxation and culture. The casino is an undoubted tourist attraction and an important part of a city's leisure activities, promoting tourism, creating employment and bringing in direct and indirect profits. The taxes paid by casinos also contribute to the economic development of the community and therefore help to distribute wealth more evenly. Casinos are subjected to a very strict fiscal regime, since they are liable to special taxes over and above those of any other business in the city or in the leisure sector. Casinos de Catalunya pays a high rate of direct gambling tax, plus a high rate of tax on its economic activity or IAE in Spain, as well as the normal tax paid by all companies. The casino is a business that generates wealth. Casinos de Catalunya also encourages cultural life in the Empordà region and Catalonia. One of its main strengths has always been its commitment to music and culture. Every year it collaborates with the Castell de Peralada International Music Festival and the Castell de Peralada Foundation, in addition to the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Palau de la Música Catalana.
Casino de Barcelona and the Ciutat Vella district Casino de Barcelona helps support some local initiatives with the Ciutat Vella district in Barcelona. These activities include charitable work, the Mercè festival and centres for the elderly, among others. In this way, it plays an active part in the life of the district, organising beach rugby tournaments, paellas for all the town and entertainment for children and adults in the Raval district. At Christmas, Casino de Barcelona gives financial aid to the TV3 Marathon. The aim of the TV3 Marathon is to make people aware of certain illnesses and the problems faced by sufferers, in addition to raising funds for research and treatment Casino de Barcelona and the 10th Police and Firefighter World Games Casino de Barcelona also supported the 10th Police and Firefighter World Games held in Barcelona in 2003 by sponsoring the t-shirts for the Catalan police force for various sports.
Casinos de Catalunya is working with the Ramon Llull University on a project concerning gambling and ethics, helping to study ethics in gambling businesses. Casinos de Catalunya and the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona |
Casinos de Catalunya and the Ramon Llull University
Casinos de Catalunya and the Computer Vision Centre of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona have developed two R&D programmes that are already operating in the casinos of Catalonia. ICAR is a computerised formula based on the automatic recognition of identity documents and ARGOS is a software program based on the recognition of facial features. 
