Market Size - Haiti

1) General portrait: "narrow" casino, "wide" lottery

The gambling industry of Haiti has a pronounced asymmetry: the formal segment of the casino is small and concentrated in the capital, while lotteries (borlette) are ubiquitous and culturally rooted. Studies describe borlette as a historical response to economic marginalization and the "search for a chance for a large sum," which explains its massive coverage and steady demand in everyday life.

2) Casino offering: The capital's actual "mono-anchor"

The largest venue is the NH Haiti El Rancho Hotel & Casino in Port-au-Prince: about 100 gaming machines and 13 tables (blackjack, roulette, poker). According to industry directories, the entire metropolitan cluster has ~ 13 tables and ~ 100 slots - this sets the order of magnitude of the country's formal casino segment.

3) Lotteries: "mass" of the market

The lottery vertical is the core of the industry. Official results tapes record daily circulations (including in borlette areas), which illustrates the continuous consumer flow and everyday nature of the product. In academic work, borlette appears as the most familiar money transaction for many households.

4) Regulatory scale: LEH "covers" the entire system of games

• from October 1, 2025, only LEH POS terminals are allowed to operate;
• there is a grace period until January 1, 2026 to complete the "regularization" of points.
• This decision changes the scale of accounting: the share of "gray" retail should be reduced, and revenue should become more transparent to the budget.

5) External demand: tourism and cruises as a "narrow neck"

The entertainment sector in the Caribbean has traditionally been fueled by tourism and cruises. For Haiti, 2024-2025 is the period of suspension of visits to Labadee: the largest player in the cruise market first temporarily removed the location from the routes, and then extended the pause until 2026 due to security. This narrows the flow of paying guests and limits the growth potential of the casino segment.

6) "Weight" online: there is demand, there is no law

Online casinos in Haiti do not have a separate regime - in fact, a "gray area" with point bans from LEH regarding unlicensed online services. This does not add a "transparent" gross industry volume within the country and shifts part of the demand offshore. (POS digitalization of lotteries is not equal to legalization of iGaming.)

7) What these scales mean for market participants

For the state/LEH: the main "lever of scale" is lottery retail. The digital platform and POS obligation potentially convert the mass turnover of borlette into accounted flows and reduce the share of "shadow" operations.

For casino operators: a realistic limit of demand in the near future is set by the metropolitan cluster and tourist flow; without returning cruises and stabilizing safety, quickly expanding the fleet of tables/slots is difficult.

For investors: scalability - through legal retail (lotteries, agents) and service at hotels; iGaming as a driver remains outside the legal field and does not create an internal "white" turnover.

8) Brief "snapshot of scale" (for 2025)

Casino (capital): about 100 slots/13 tables in the largest complex; comparable aggregates in the city - of the same order of magnitude.

Lotteries: daily circulation of borlette formats; a wide network of points of sale, moving to POS LEH.

Tourism/cruises: long suspensions of calls to Labadee (prolongation in 2025 - until 2026).

The scale of Haiti's gambling industry is a small formal segment of casino versus mass lottery retail. In the coming years, "growth on paper" will rather come through accounting and digitization of the existing lottery turnover (POS LEH) than through the expansion of casino offers: tourism is limited, the cruise channel is partially turned off, and online remains outside the legal field. For the market, this means the priority of compliance and operational efficiency in lotteries and a verified strategy for the capital's casinos until the macro and tourism environment improves.