International Leisure Development (ILD) promised tonight in Ontiñena (Huesca) invest more than 1,300 million and create about 200,000 direct and indirect jobs in the leisure complex and gambling Gran Scala, which will begin implementation in 2012 thanks to the "well received" by the Government of Aragon. The complex, which recreates "Las Vegas style", will have a high-speed train(AVE) stop and well connections, said promoter Paul Stephan Allegrini in statements to the media.

The inauguration date scheduled for the first phase of the leisure project Gran Scala has not changed. For International Leisure Development (ILD), the announcement of the vicepresident of Aragon government, José Ángel Biel, on a possible delay in the beginning of the construction until the beginning of 2009 “is not a problem”. The same source has said that “ILD has considered, according to its calculations...

International Leisure Development (ILD), the pool of companies that promotes Gran Scala complex, signed the first definite agreement with a gambling company in order to manage a casino hotel in Los Monegros. The company is Novomatic, located in Austria. The agreement was signed last week in London, a city in which ILD has a venue, in which executives developed last week intensive negotiations with operators of the gambling sector within International Casino Exhibition 2008 (ICE).

While eight agreements with international operators have already been confirmed for Gran Scala complex, ILD company aims to conclude the rest of the agreements in London, between January 22-26, within ICE. International Leisure Development (ILD), promoter of the complex than includes a theme park, tourism and leisure, has concluded agreements with eight groups of the sector to be in charge of other hotel casino projects, according to sources of the pool of companies.

International Leisure Development (ILD), a pool of companies which promote the games of chance park as well as Gran Scala theme parks, in Spain, compete with other firms that boost similar ideas, as well as Euro Vegas in Hungary. Euro Vegas is boosted by a group of US investors and will be located in Bezenye, a small Hungarian town located 80 kilometres from Vienna, 40 from Bratislava and 160 from Budapest.

International Leisure Development (ILD) aims to inaugurate mega-complex Gran Scala in October 2010 with a first phase of developments. According to sources of the project, figures indicate that, on that date, twelve casino hotels and twenty hotels will be operating. In a second phase, six to twelve months later, a second theme park should be built, called Aquántica and promoted by the same group of fifteen firms called Spyland.