Tourism

Sure, the gas cost is horrendous, but ...

Brad Herzog, his wife, Amy, and sons Jesse, left, 6, and Luke, 7, at the KOA campground by Circus Circus, vacation in an RV supplied by Winnebago Industries Inc. for two months each year. Brad Herzog has written two books about their RV trips.

Nearly at the end of his summer vacation and parked in the Circus Circus KOA RV campground, author Brad Herzog reflected Friday on the many important cultural locations he and his family have visited.

13 August 2008
By Brendan Buhler

Fewer people paying Vegas a visit

Visitor traffic in Las Vegas fell 3 percent in June compared with a year ago, while room rates across the valley fell 16 percent as the economic downturn took its toll, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported today.

11 August 2008
By Liz Benston

Tourism's missing link

At UNLV's Judy Bayley Theater on Wednesday, Shaun Sewell, chairman of Experience Las Vegas (the working title of the arts council's planned portal) and Joan Lolmaugh, president of the Metro Arts Council, are enthusiastic about an organization that will represent all the arts in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas, long the entertainment capital of the world, thinks it’s reached the point where it can promote cultural tourism, creating an arts council to knit together a fragmented arts community...

7 August 2008
By Kristen Peterson

Airlines sound alarm for Vegas tourism

Airlines serving McCarran International Airport have issued the bleakest economic forecast yet for Las Vegas, recommending that officials reconsider the need for a terminal that is under construction because there may not be sufficient tourism traffic to justify it.

17 July 2008
By Michael Mishak

Boulder City: A gateway to the past

Located half an hour outside of the bright lights of Las Vegas lies a quiet town that some might consider to be the Mayberry of Southern Nevada. Although the town has grown, it still displays parts of its beginning.

15 May 2008
By Natasha Shepherd

Fremont Street: A block with experience

The canopy of lights that hangs over Fremont Street has a bit of a hypnotic, and fully intentional, effect on the people below. Walking through a crowd of hundreds who stand perfectly still, eyes cast upward on the synchronized 12.5 million LED lights and ears tuned to the 550,000-watt sound system is one of the city's most whimsical experiences.

15 May 2008
By Rob Ponte

CityCenter signals a change in the very nature of development on the Strip

It is amazing how easy it is for those of us who live in Las Vegas to fail to appreciate the tremendous changes under way on the Strip.

12 May 2008
By Jeff Simpson

Our concentration of resorts is cited as economic model

Las Vegas’ success in becoming a nexus of entertainment and gambling is a model that American cities would do well to emulate in other businesses, a new Brookings Institution report concludes.

2 May 2008
By Joe Schoenmann,
Jack Sheehan

US Airways to cut more Las Vegas flights

A US Airways passenger jet takes off from McCarran International Airport in February. The carrier operates about 100 round trips daily to and from Las Vegas.

US Airways, the second-busiest operator at McCarran International Airport, has notified its workers that it will discontinue its hub operation in Las Vegas and curtail the number of flights here.

30 April 2008
By Richard N. Velotta

How the airline industry’s recent financial problems affect Vegas

I’m generally a guy who sees the glass as half full, but today I’d like to share a couple of conflicting views of our local economy.

27 April 2008
By Jeff Simpson

Cruise line: Don’t give up the ship ... or the lake

Lake Mead Cruises' two boats, the Desert Princess and the Desert Princess Too, are anchored in Lake Mead in Boulder City in April 2008.

Out at Lake Mead, where the water line keeps receding and signs beg people to double check that zebra mussels have been kicked off boats, one woman is simply trying to sell some cruises.

23 April 2008
By Mike Trask

Tourism juggernaut shows signs of slowing down

For all the highly technical and nuanced ways to identify economic slowdowns, in Las Vegas there’s one simple way to take measure: room rates.

7 April 2008
By Liz Benston

Blue Man Group taking flight

Blue Man Group performers hold up an Allegiant Air sign Tuesday during a promotion to announce a partnership between the troupe and the Las Vegas-based airline.

Through an agreement believed to be the first between an airline and an entertainment company, Allegiant Air and Blue Man Group will use each other’s turf to broaden their brands.

21 March 2008
By Richard N. Velotta

Foreclosure filing meant to push Strip project’s sale

Wall Street lending troubles and increasing construction costs have so far derailed the Tropicana hotel expansion, which was seen as too ambitious even before the market decline, and the possible Riviera redevelopment, which already was doubtful because of infighting among large shareholders.

19 March 2008
By Liz Benston

Clubs’ cash flow suspect

Patrons step up to the bar and fill the dance floor at Pure in Caesars Palace.

The burgeoning nightclub scene has brought a new kind of money to Las Vegas — and an old kind of trouble. The scene is awash in cash to an extent reminiscent of Las Vegas’ early days.

28 February 2008
By Liz Benston,
Jeff German,
Michael Mishak
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