Nevada’s gaming industry ended its three-month string of billion-dollar monthly wins, but continued to produce stellar numbers in April.
Tourism
Executives in boardrooms across the gaming industry had to be smiling when first-quarter results began rolling in. Shareholders, too.
While most of the focus on the planned $1.8 billion, 65,000-seat Las Vegas stadium is focused on the construction site at Interstate 15 and Russell Road, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority continues to monitor agreements it has reached with the stadium’s builders, the Oakland Raiders.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors on Thursday approved a $359.8 million operating budget that also continues the process of building a $1.4 billion expansion to the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Taxicab ridership and revenue continued to plummet last month in Southern Nevada, according to figures released this week.
The stadium authority board unanimously approved a $546.3 million budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year and a collection of amended agreements designed to better account for funding of the $1.8 billion, 65,000-seat indoor stadium under construction at Interstate 15 and Russell Road.
Rising gas prices won’t stop visitors from coming to Las Vegas for Memorial Day, following a national trend of more people who plan to hit the road during the long holiday weekend that starts Friday.
The presidential debate staged at the Thomas Mack Center on Oct. 19, 2016, produced media value estimated at $114 million. Assigning a value to this miracle season of the Vegas Golden Knights is a bit more complicated.
The new 30- and 60-second “Only Vegas Moments” ads were produced by Las Vegas-based RR Partners, the authority’s advertising consultant, and were cut from a series of short YouTube movies about “adult freedom.”
A new Las Vegas Strip concert venue is slated to offer guests technology that will allow them to feel the music.
Hilton’s Waldorf Astoria luxury brand expects to plant its flag on the Strip when it takes over operation of the 392-room Mandarin Oriental at CityCenter in August.
Clark County Clerk Lynn Goya’s request to divert funds for wedding tourism promotions was not quashed Tuesday. But county commissioners did not appear keen on the idea.
People nixing vacations to Hawaii’s Big island has cost the tourism industry millions of dollars as the top attraction, Kilauea volcano, keeps spewing lava.
Marc-Andre Fleury, Nate Schmidt, Deryk Engelland and Jonathan Marchessault are now welcoming airline passengers to Las Vegas on a series of messages played throughout McCarran International Airport.
The Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Authority could lose a $1 million-per-year contract with Clark County to promote wedding tourism.
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