New Orleans holds Louisiana's single land-based casino licence, at the foot of Canal Street beside the French Quarter, together with riverboat and racetrack gaming in the surrounding parishes. The land-based licence was granted in the 1990s with conditions limiting hotel and restaurant competition with the city's own hospitality trade; those limits were later eased.
The casino trades on convention and leisure visitors already drawn to the Quarter rather than on a destination gaming market, and the floor is smaller than the city's profile suggests.
