This was partly an academic conference. Many of the authors of professional papers presented at the Conference are University scholars and, indeed, many of the world’s most prominent researchers in the fields of gambling and commercial gaming were in attendance at the Conference. This was also an industry conference. A number of sessions dealt with subjects of significant importance to legal gaming industries and regulatory structures in this country and abroad. Papers and sessions on the marketing of destination resorts with casino gaming in different parts of the world were presented, as well as many which dealt with the spread of commercial gaming as a tourism and economic development catalyst. Moreover, the conference attracted professional sports bettors, handicappers, card counters, mathematicians and statisticians whose major intent and interest is to discover how to beat the odds, either through canny analysis of information and personalities, or by examining underlying structural patterns of wagers and gambles that can then be used to the advantage of gamblers. This was also a conference that addressed and dealt with many of the negative consequences of gambling in society. Psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, and representatives of social welfare organizations from the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and West Germany presented a variety of findings relating to the causes and cures of problem and pathological gambling. Though each of these subject areas is seemingly quite different from the others, an understanding of the ways they are interrelated provides significant insight as to the true breadth of the individual topic areas. Development of a broad perspective toward gambling has been one of the main objectives of the International Conferences of Gambling and Risk Taking. Furthermore, as new jurisdictions continue to consider commercial gambling as a catalyst for tourism development or economic development, this type of research will acquire even greater importance. The professional papers presented at the Conference have been published through the University of Nevada Reno in live separate volumes, grouped by subject area, entitled Gambling Research: Proceedings of th Seventh International Confe7ence on Gambling and Risk Taking (edited by William R. Eadington). Furthermore, preliminary plans are being made for the Eighth Conference which will likely be held in London in the summer of 1990. For further information on the next Conference or the publication, write to Gambling Research, Department of Economics, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV 89557.00