Tourism

Virgin sells feel-good offsets

Should people who travel on commercial airliners be responsible for the environmental damage caused by the engine emissions from their planes?

6 February 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

Funding for the arts, state parks in jeopardy

Sections of Gov. Jim Gibbons' budget plan could dramatically change the state’s ability to attract visitors and, thus, generate tax revenue that could help solve some of the state’s financial problems.

2 February 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

Tourism, parks, gaming would suffer under Gibbons’ plan

Most of the focus of Gov. Jim Gibbons’ proposed budget for the next biennium has been on the potentially damaging effects it would have on high-profile departments such as education, social services and correctional facilities. But other departments would suffer similarly devastating effects.

30 January 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

December decline leaves McCarran with 7.7 percent fewer passengers in 2008

Last year ended on a sour note — another double-digit percentage decline — for passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport. In December 3.2 million passengers arrived and departed from the airport, a 14.1 percent decline from December 2007, bringing the annual total of passengers to 44.1 million, 7.7 percent fewer than in 2007.

30 January 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

US Airways reports loss after Las Vegas cutbacks

US Airways Group Inc., the second-busiest airline in Las Vegas, today reported a hefty loss of $541 million or $4.74 per share for the fourth quarter that ended Dec. 31 -- substantially worse than its loss in the year-ago quarter of $79 million or 87 cents per share.

29 January 2009
By Steve Green

AeroMexico starts nonstop flights from McCarran to Mexico City

AeroMexico, which has been growing in Las Vegas, will expand again when it launches nonstop flights between Las Vegas and Mexico City on Thursday.

28 January 2009
By Steve Green

Unusual measures evident in state, local tourism efforts

The Nevada Tourism Commission is working to hire a director who may never take office, and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is promoting a visit to Southern Nevada with characters that have never ridden an escalator. Yes, these are indeed unusual times in the local tourism industry and just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder, they do.

23 January 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

McCarran keeps spot as sixth-busiest airport

Despite fewer passengers arriving at McCarran International Airport last year, the Las Vegas terminal ranks sixth-busiest among U.S. airports, according to a federal report released today.

22 January 2009
By Mary Manning

Panel to conduct in-person interviews for tourism job

A search committee has decided to bring in all six semi-finalists for face-to-face interviews to become director of the state Commission on Tourism, which is facing a dramatic decrease in its budget.

21 January 2009
By Cy Ryan

Yapta saves fliers cash with alerts on ticket price reductions

If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to save money in your travel expenses, you may want to look at a Web site that has been operating for more than a year and a half and has a cool new feature that is helpful to some frequent fliers. It’s Yapta.com, with “yapta” an acronym for “your amazing personal travel assistant.”

16 January 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

November worst month so far for Las Vegas visitor volume in 2008

Grim numbers continued to frustrate tourism officials with the report in Southern Nevada of a 9.8 percent decline in November visitor volume from a year ago. Every meaningful statistic was off from November 2007, according the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, as the number of monthly visitors hit its lowest level of the year.

16 January 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

Ford: Think of us as a technology company

Ford chief: Alan Mulally, president and chief executive of Ford Motor Co., pauses during a keynote speech during the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show on Jan. 8.

Ford Motor Co. doesn’t want consumers to just think of it as a car manufacturer. It’s hoping they’ll begin viewing it as a technology company. The image makeover was one of the things the 105-year-old Detroit-based company — the fourth largest auto manufacturer in the world — was selling at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

16 January 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

Texas town stars in new Las Vegas visitor campaign

In today’s world of buzzwords and hidden meanings amid economic turmoil, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority doesn’t want you to vacation here. It wants you to take a break here. That’s the new message that will be sent to tourists in the weeks ahead as the authority rolls out its initial marketing campaign for 2009.

16 January 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

Panel names candidates for state tourism director

A Carson City woman and two men from outside Nevada are the top candidates to become state tourism director. Not on the list was the Reno airline employee who Gov. Jim Gibbons appointed to lead the commission last month. The commission rejected the appointment.

14 January 2009
By Cy Ryan

Summit to focus on BC tourism

A Boulder City Tourism Summit Feb. 19 will bring Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman and Las Vegas tourism professionals to town for the afternoon.

9 January 2009
By Cassie Tomlin
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