Tourism

Golden Gate on Fremont Street to double casino size

A view of the Golden Gate hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas Friday, Jan. 24, 2015.

The Golden Gate hotel hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas will double its casino size as part of a major renovation announced Thursday. The 111-year-old property will ...

20 July 2017
By Las Vegas Sun Staff

CEO McBeath: Cosmopolitan has 'exceeded all of our forecasted numbers'

An exterior view of the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, center, on the Las Vegas Strip Monday, Feb. 15, 2016.

“Just the right amount of wrong” is still the Cosmopolitan’s catchy slogan after almost seven years of operation on the Las Vegas Strip. After almost three years with ...

14 July 2017
By Thomas Moore

Blackstone buys World Market Center

The exterior of the World Market Center in Las Vegas, Nev. on Nov. 18, 2016.

Investment firm Blackstone, in partnership with Fireside Investments, announced Thursday it is buying International Market Centers, owner-operator of World Market Center in ...

7 July 2017
By Las Vegas Sun Staff

Lyft, Zero Fatalities offer discounts this weekend

You can't avoid Lyft—or its iconic insignia—on the Strip.

If you partake in the first days of legal recreational marijuana sales in Las Vegas on Saturday and become impaired, Zero Fatalities has partnered with Lyft Las Vegas to provide up to $10,000 worth of safe rides. ...

1 July 2017
By Mick Akers

Las Vegas visitation expected to tick up for the Fourth of July

Fireworks entertain the crowds on Independence Day over Caesars Palace about the Las Vegas Strip as seen from the Vortex of The LINQ Hotel on Saturday, July 4, 2015.

You can expect more this Fourth of July — more tourists, more traffic and more heat. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority expects 323,000 visitors to come to Las Vegas, that’s just about ...

30 June 2017
By Thomas Moore

Bionic bartenders deployed at Las Vegas Strip bar: But can you bend their ear?

A drink prepared by robotic bartenders is shown in the Tipsy Robot automated bar in the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Monday, June 26, 2017. The bar is scheduled to open on Friday.

Two robots walk into a bar. Well, OK, maybe they don’t walk, but they can pour you a perfect drink. Tipsy Robot, a 2,500-square-foot bar to open Friday at the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood, boasts two robotic bartenders ready to make your favorite concoction any way you like. Looking to gain a step on other major nightlife cities in the U.S., owner Rino Armeni decided ...

28 June 2017
By Mick Akers

What are the prospects of retail on the former New Frontier site on the Strip?

A view of the former New Frontier casino site Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, on Las Vegas Boulevard South.

It’s a 20-year-old question that investors have spent billions trying to answer: What, if anything, can get built on the site of the New Frontier? Experts speculate ...

27 June 2017
By Thomas Moore

Southern Nevada officials can ‘get aggressive’ to research, fund proposed light rail

A proposal to build an urban light rail or bus rapid transit system on Maryland Parkway between McCarran International Airport and downtown Las Vegas is moving forward. This image from the Regional Transportation Commission shows a version of the proposal that involves running light rail lines down both sides of the street.

A series of bills approved by the Nevada Legislature allows the Regional Transportation Commission to more vigorously pursue long-term mass transit solutions to the ...

27 June 2017
By Yvonne Gonzalez

New Lake Tahoe lodge praised as boon to economy, environment

This June 20, 2017, photo released by Douglas County shows the new swimming pool at the Edgewood Tahoe Lodge during its grand opening on the south shore of Lake Tahoe in Stateline, Nev. The $100 million lodge has 154 rooms and was built in conjunction with an ambitious project to protect wetlands and filter stormwater runoff harmful to the lake's clarity. (

More than two decades after developers first faced a series of stringent regulations, a $100 million lodge has opened on the south shore of Lake Tahoe to rave reviews from politicians, business leaders and environmentalists. Completion of the ...

25 June 2017
By Associated Press

MGM Grand breaks ground on convention space addition

A rendering of MGM Grand's convention center expansion, set to break ground on Tuesday, June 20, 2017.

MGM Grand is set to break ground Tuesday on an expansion to its convention center that will add 250,000 square feet, giving it more than 850,000 square feet of meeting and convention space. ...

20 June 2017
By Thomas Moore

Bet your bottom dollar chairs matter in casinos

Station Casinos placed new chairs for slot players when it completed its acquisition of the Palms in 2016. According to one manufacturer, the right chair at the right game can really help a casino’s bottom line.

The bulk of Nevada’s economy rests on one unglamorous, taken-for-granted object. We’re talking about chairs — the kind seen in front of almost every one of the 166,855 slot and video poker machines in Nevada. Players dropped nearly $2 billion into casino coffers while ...

16 June 2017
By Thomas Moore

How a tourist destination can maintain its appeal in an era of crisis events

Flowers are seen at Westminster bridge to remember the terror attack on March 22, in London, Friday, April 7, 2017.

Security experts from across the world discussed the components of a robust tourism industry, including safety, health and enjoyment Tuesday at ...

14 June 2017
By Chris Kudialis

LVCVA OKs massive Convention Center expansion

Exterior of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

The financing — $900 million worth of bonds — and a plan to spend almost $1.5 billion to expand and renovate the Las Vegas Convention Center were approved Tuesday at ...

13 June 2017
By Thomas Moore

What travelers can expect in the air this summer

A combination of new airline classes of service and security practices seems poised to compound the confusion around air travel, even as airlines incrementally increase some of the perks common in decades past, such as free meals.

Between flight cancellations last month at Spirit Airlines that led to a brawl in the airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and viral cellphone videos of crew and passenger altercations ...

12 June 2017
By Elaine Glusac, New York Times News Service

Why Trump shouldn't kill Brand USA tourism program

Jim Murren, chairman/CEO of MGM Resorts International, during The Parks first-ever tree lighting ceremony in Toshiba Plaza Monday, Nov. 21, 2016.

President Trump's recent budget proposal may inadvertently make it harder to achieve one of his central economic goals — curbing ...

6 June 2017
CNN
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