Convention attendance was off 16.7 percent and January visitor volume was down 3.3 percent, but the average daily room rate soared for the month to the highest level in history, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported Wednesday.
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Passenger traffic continued to grow at McCarran International Airport during the first month of the new year, the Clark County Department of Aviation reported Wednesday.
The Helicopter Association International’s Heli-Expo opened Tuesday and runs through Thursday at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas.
While the Southern Nevada casino industry enjoys a burst of prosperity and development, it also may be facing a tide of negative sentiment from loyal casino customers regarding high resort fees and paid parking policies at Strip casinos.
The Las Vegas Stadium Authority and the Oakland Raiders hope to finalize a stadium development agreement that has been months in the making at a special meeting scheduled for Thursday.
Drug-toting travelers now have a place to trash their stash before boarding a flight at McCarran International Airport.
Clark County will issue as much as $400 million in bonds over the next two years to help pay for the expansion and renovation of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
When conventioneers come to Las Vegas starting in 2021, many of them will experience a meeting environment they’ve never had in their previous trips to Southern Nevada.
The two-day, $200 crash course is offered n the Henderson and West Charleston campuses three times this year, taught by Julie Davies, an industry advocate who operates short-term rentals .
The party’s over in downtown high-rises — that’s the message Las Vegas officials sent this week as the city continues to crack down on short-term rentals.
Clark County commissioners on Tuesday are expected to approve $200 million in bonds for the expansion and renovation of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
After months of delays, MGM Cotai, the 1,390-room hotel casino just off Macau’s Cotai Strip, has opened its doors and is expecting massive crowds for Chinese New Year in the next few days.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors on Tuesday unanimously approved a $9.5 million contribution to a $28.5 million upgrade to the Fremont Street Experience video canopy.
If the allegations against Steve Wynn are just the tip of an iceberg, it could create a very tough balancing act for Southern Nevada’s tourism bureau and its use of the familiar slogan “what happens here, stays here,” according to several marketing experts.
Steve Wynn is a smart and charismatic speaker who can paint a vivid landscape of words from his imagination. How could somebody that smart allow himself to be cornered into the position of having to quit now?
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