City, state and national tourism leaders cheered on the battered hospitality industry Tuesday, celebrating National Travel and Tourism Week on the Strip with a “red takeover.”
Richard N. Velotta
Richard N. “Rick” Velotta has covered business, the gaming industry, tourism, transportation and aviation in Las Vegas for 25 years. A former reporter and editor with the Las Vegas Sun, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Aurora (Colo.) Sun, Velotta is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he won the school’s top journalism honor. He became the Review-Journal's assistant business editor in September 2018.
The furloughs of almost 63,000 MGM Resorts International employees soon could turn into layoffs.
The culinary union, the largest labor organization in Nevada, says the state Gaming Control Board’s guidelines for reopening casinos fall short of protecting workers.
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The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority confirmed what most tourism leaders already knew: The coronavirus devastated visitation to the city in March.
With the state’s casinos ordered closed in March by Gov. Steve Sisolak, the industry knew it was going to see a huge win decline. As bad as it is, April’s win will be worse.
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