LOS CASINOS EN CHILE COMO ENCLAVES TURÍSTICOS-REGIONALES: APORTES Y ASIMETRÍAS DE RENDICIÓN DE CUENTAS / CASINOS IN CHILE AS TOURIST-REGIONAL SPOTS: CONTRIBUTIONS AND ASYMMETRIES OF RESPONSIBILITY

The following article explains the contributions of the Chilean casino industry to the regional development and the municipal rents which, from 2005. It shows the median contribution of these companies to the regional rents of a country with a centralized form of government, but significant for the municipalities of the regions closed to Santiago. Also, it reveals the creation of direct employment and the benefits it brings to new hotels and for the access to shows in regions with deficient touristic development. The analysis of interviews to local actors, located in the southern central zone, corroborated that, along with the assessment to infrastructure and incomes, the industry is criticized due to the scant coordination between public regional and municipal agencies in the generation of touristic clusters. Some recommendations are made for the Chilean case in terms of improving tax collections, achieving convergence in relation to municipal contributions and enhancing accountability and its impact towards touristic-productive dynamism.