The event planned at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center has attracted around 25,000 people with 5,000 brands and 16,000 retailers from 70 countries in the past.
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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 state’s more than 400 largest casinos won more from players in 2021 than in any year in history. But find out which games give players the best bang for their buck.
Several leading tourism industry categories showed improvement over 2020 levels — but not all of them. The LVCVA said visitation and convention traffic was up in 2021.
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, the busiest commercial air carrier at Reid International Airport, continues to navigate the effects of the omicron variant that included a flurry of flight cancellations.
Nevada casinos, paced by those in Clark County, extended their record of consecutive months of gaming win exceeding $1 billion to 10 in December, the Nevada Gaming Control Board reported Thursday.
Tourism is down dramatically in Singapore and Macao, where Sands is the market leader, but company executives remain bullish on those markets.
Applied Analysis principal Brian Gordon started the event with an optimistic look at how the local economy will grow following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Las Vegas entrepreneur who bought Antonio Brown meltdown video clip sells NFT to collector for 3 entherium, or around $20,000, at auction.
With World of Concrete and the SHOT Show conventions this week and NAB around the corner, the meetings industry assesses what the attendance outlook will be in 2022.
With domestic ultra-low-cost carriers bearing most of the load, the number of airline seats coming into the Las Vegas market will reach prepandemic levels by February.
Stock prices were up Friday for Las Vegas casino operators with resorts in Macao after the government there clarified its casino licensing framework.
Tao Beach Dayclub at The Venetian will more than double its size and will be able to accommodate more than 3,000 visitors when it opens in the spring.
Executives from Samsung Electronics were returned to South Korea on two charter flights from Las Vegas and health officials can’t confirm if infections occurred at CES.
Evan Savar acquired the rights to NFT the video footage, originally captured from a fan’s camera phone and valued at potentially as much as $1.5M, and is auctioning it on ViralHeir.com.
Preview Las Vegas, the Vegas Chamber’s largest forecasting and networking event and trade show, will take place Tuesday at Allegiant Stadium with several speakers on the agenda.
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