Tourism

Prisons study goal: Stretch a tight budget

A nonprofit group will be allowed to closely study the state Corrections Department and recommend ways to improve the system, officials decided this week. Howard Skolnik, the department’s director, is working on an agreement with the Vera Institute of Justice for a two-year study of the system, which could recommend how to best deal with shrinking budgets, overextended staff and the continual flow of repeat offenders.

16 July 2009
By Cy Ryan

Pay raises, room taxes loom as topics for tourism industry

Two big issues are coming up for tourism organizations in Nevada.

10 July 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

Crystals reveals more of its facets

Crystals construction: Work continues July 7 on Crystals, center left, CityCenter's retail area, and the Harmon, in blue, on the Las Vegas Strip.

MGM Mirage has lured an impressive array of the world’s top luxury retailers for Crystals, the retail component of its $8.5 billion CityCenter, the company announced this week.

10 July 2009
By Jeff Simpson

Las Vegas visitor numbers off 5.8 percent in May

The number of visitors to Las Vegas dropped 5.8 percent in May compared to a year earlier, according to numbers released Thursday.

9 July 2009
By Tim Richardson

Plans, room rates for CES 2010 already in high gear

Although it’s still six months away, preparations are well under way for the world’s largest consumer technology show.

3 July 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

City money could rescue historic Boulder Dam Hotel

General Manager Roger Shoaff checks room availabilities on June 22 at the renovated Boulder Dam Hotel.

Boulder City’s Redevelopment Agency could become a white knight to rescue the historic Boulder Dam Hotel from possible closure. The RDA board, made up of the five City Council members, next Tuesday will consider a request from the hotel for $135,000 to help with its debt service, freeing up hotel money to stay open through summer months made leaner than usual by the recession. The meeting begins at 3 p.m. at City Hall, 401 California Ave.

30 June 2009
By Jean Reid Norman

Travel Web site says Vegas is top holiday destination

Las Vegas will be the nation's top destination for Fourth of July travelers this year, according to one travel Web site's chief executive.

29 June 2009
By Amanda Finnegan

Visitor slowdown has historic Boulder City hotel needing money

The remodeled Boulder Dam Hotel was built in 1933. The hotel needs a cash infusion of up to $60,000 to make it through the summer, which is its traditionally its slow season, its managers say.

The first time Bill Ferrence stepped into the lobby of the run-down Boulder Dam Hotel in the mid-1970s, he loved the old building despite itself. His love led him to help organize the Boulder Dam Hotel Association, which since 1993 has raised $3 million to bring the hotel back to its splendor of the 1930s and 1940s, when it hosted movie stars and world leaders. The renovated hotel was on track to be self-sufficient, but the recession has hurt the hotel’s occupancy rates, as it has hotels on the Strip. That drop has been the difference between financial health and ...

29 June 2009
By Jean Reid Norman

How many walk LV Strip? Mobile message deliverer now knows the answer

Tourists stroll along Las Vegas Boulevard in front of Paris Las Vegas.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has tons of statistics profiling tourists in Southern Nevada.

26 June 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

McCarran passenger declines running parallel to capacity cuts

Passenger counts at McCarran International Airport were off in May for the 15th straight month with declines in arriving and departing travelers running parallel to percentage changes in capacity by the 33 airlines serving Las Vegas.

26 June 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

Online travel agents are possible tax target

The Nevada Tourism Commission may explore whether it can persuade the state to require online travel agencies to pay room taxes based on what hotel guests are paying rather than the rate the agency negotiates with the property.

26 June 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

‘Hangover’ shouldn’t be endorsement to act stupid in Las Vegas

In this film publicity image released by Warner Bros., Zach Galifianakis, left, Bradley Cooper, center, and Ed Helms are shown in a scene from "The Hangover."

In the past few weeks millions of moviegoers have seen “The Hangover,” a bawdy comedy set in Las Vegas about a bachelor party gone wrong. That should be good news for tourism since many Vegas-set films tend to serve as 90-minute advertisements for the city.

19 June 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

Competing high-speed train plans battling for support

Competing high-speed train proposals for systems linking Las Vegas and Southern California are getting support from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, but a group planning to develop a magnetic-levitation system was stunned when one of its biggest supporters switched sides.

19 June 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

Porter’s bills are becoming laws without him

Republican Jon Porter is having a great legislative year. Only problem is, he’s no longer in Congress.

18 June 2009
By Lisa Mascaro

Despite budget cuts, Nevada Southern Railway Museum still rolling

The Nevada Southern Railway Museum in Boulder City had to lay off one of its four employees because of state budget cuts, but the museum is expected to maintain its regular operating schedule for the time being.

The Nevada Southern Railway Museum in Boulder City has not been spared from state budget cuts, but the rolling train exhibit is still on track to meet or exceed its biggest ridership numbers this year, the museum’s director said. Museum Director Greg Corbin said one maintenance worker will be laid off and the remaining three employees, including Corbin, will scale back their hours from 40 to 32 per week. The museum train will continue to make its four runs every Saturday and Sunday and provide a unique lesson of Nevada’s railroad history for schools and other groups during the week ...

13 June 2009
By Jeff Pope
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