One of the highlight of CES every year is a pitch competition for small technology companies and this year’s nine entrants didn’t disappoint judges and the audience.
Richard N. Velotta
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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 LVCVA is getting a $7 million nonrefundable cancellation fee and has re-listed 10 acres at Las Vegas and Elvis Presley boulevards for sale.
Casino operators in the Chinese market are more optimistic about 2023 now that harshest shutdowns have ended.
While there are still storm clouds on the horizon for the four-day CES 2023 show, organizers are anticipating a large crowd to arrive at multiple convention venues.
After a fair record for predicting 2022, my 2023 crystal ball sees gaming success here and in Macao, new flights to Japan and an F1 letdown.
Investors will spend at least $3.2 billion, add 4,758 hotel rooms and 581,000 square feet of meeting and convention space in projects set for completion next year.
The Consumer Electronics Association is requiring additional health and safety procedures for early arrivals to CES from China, Hong Kong and Macao.
The LVCVA said an estimated 3.3 million visitors came to Las Vegas in November, including an estimated 582,800 conventioneers.
The state’s 459 licensed casinos reported a gaming win of $13.5 billion, up 10.2 percent over the first 11 months of 2021.
With one month to go, it appears likely that the airport serving Las Vegas will break 2019’s all-time record of 51.5 million passengers for the calendar year.
Five industry leaders, including three with recent executive experience with The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, are joining Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Soffer at Fontainebleau.
The Mohegan, San Manuel and Seminole tribes paced the expansion of gaming in Nevada in 2022 as well as the city’s emergence as the ‘Greatest Arena on Earth’ for tourism.
The reality is that the strong casino lobby works to thwart a lottery as potential competition for discretionary entertainment dollars in casinos.
The developers of Fontainebleau Las Vegas, the 67-story north Strip hotel-casino, secured a $2.2 billion construction loan — assuring completion of the project by late 2023.
The new regulation outlines a plan to develop risk assessments and explains how casinos must report data breaches to regulators when they happen.
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