If he had a dream car, championship freestyle skier Simon Dumont would make sure there was an espresso machine inside. He’d also make sure certain details — such as his rooftop ski rack — were more suited to his 5-foot-6 stature.
Tourism
Dozens of fish played in an aquarium installed in the back of a customized sea-blue Toyota Highlander, an ode to SpongeBob SquarePants. Yes, automotive dreams can come true.
Las Vegas will be popular this Thanksgiving. Using booking data for travel between Nov. 4 and Nov. 30, CheapOair found that Las Vegas is the No. 2 destination for travel during the 2013 Thanksgiving holiday.
Las Vegas tourism is flat. Through September, tourism stayed relatively unchanged at 30 million visitors year-to-date compared to 30.06 million who visited during the same time period in 2012.
Seth Schorr’s vision for the Downtown Grand Las Vegas was always different from the typical resort. The hotel-casino, which blends into the urban core of downtown more than other properties, opened on Sunday as the first guests checked in, restaurants opened, and the race and sports book took its first bet.
A plane swap begins on Sunday, when Air Canada substitutes its new Air Canada rouge division on flights between Las Vegas and Toronto.
Buoyed by busier U.S. airlines, the September passenger count at McCarran International Airport of 3.47 million marked a 1.2 percent gain compared to a year ago.
Globalization, technology and new development were among the themes this week at IMEX America 2013, an exhibition for incentive travel, meetings and events.
Potential exhibitors of premium children’s products got the red carpet treatment during Plush’s preview event at the World Market Center on Wednesday.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority soon will purchase another slice of Sierra Vista Drive. At its board of directors meeting Tuesday morning, the authority was given approval to move forward with the purchase of 500 and 650 Sierra Vista Drive, at a cost of up to $21 million.
After his 20-minute session with Hong Kong Express Airways on Monday, Scott Kichline realized that its fleet of 24 passenger airliners was probably not configured for direct flights to Las Vegas.
Local visitor industry leaders extended their formal greeting on Friday to the World Routes conference, the most visible part of a three-year effort to land the conference, and to bring more foreign tourists to Las Vegas.
Allegiant Air announced Monday that it had completed the hurry-up overhaul of many of the emergency slides in its MD-80 aircraft, putting the entire fleet back in operation.
By her own admission, Marilyn Kirkpatrick isn’t an expert on stadiums. The Nevada Assembly speaker’s day job is food sales, not sports venues.
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