China’s COVID-19 policies have hindered visitation, which affects properties controlled by Las Vegas Sands Corp., Wynn Resorts Ltd. and MGM Resorts International.
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 Nevada Supreme Court has reversed a decision by a Clark County District Court judge that said state gaming regulators no longer have jurisdiction over former casino executive Steve Wynn.
Visitor volume, hotel occupancy rates and convention attendance were all higher than they were a year ago in Las Vegas, but less than what they were in pre-COVID 2020.
Despite there being only 28 days in the month, the state’s 433 major casinos won more than $1 billion for the 12th straight month in February.
Through a partnership with New York-based YellowHeart, MGM Resorts International is jumping into the world of non-fungible-token ticketing, a first for Las Vegas.
Customers of Henderson’s Emerald Island casino can now draw funds easier to their club cards from their bank accounts with Emerald Express Cash technology.
Boyd Interactive Gaming is buying Pala Interactive LLC for $170 million to bolster Boyd’s iGaming platform with business-to-business and business-to-consumer components.
The former MGM Resorts International chief financial officer is taking a similar position with the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians’ gaming enterprise.
The first industry week celebrating food and beverage companies is bringing the 38-year-old International Pizza Expo and the brand-new SIAL America to Las Vegas.
Work will begin soon on the 35,000-square-foot meetings and convention space for the downtown resort, with the first customers expected in September.
The decertification of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 501 as Red Rock’s union representative could have ramifications with other union relationships.
You think the Las Vegas March Madness experience can’t get any better? Wait until the city begins hosting tournament games at T-Mobile Arena and Allegiant Stadium.
Concert sellouts at Allegiant Stadium have accomplished what developers hoped would happen — that a large number of out-of-towners would come to Las Vegas for the shows.
Former Cruise senior vice president Lucas Watson will develop various aspects of MSG Sphere’s commercial strategy when he arrives with the company later this month.
In a hearing for Resorts World executives, the top local executive said he is optimistic the Boring Co. tunnel to the Convention Center will be open next month.
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