Tourism

Speed Vegas breaks ground on 90-acre ‘extreme driving experience’

Erik Pappa, Clark County director of public communications, takes a photo of a Lamborghini Gallardo LP550 during a ground breaking ceremony for Speed Vegas, a $30 million, 90-acre racetrack project on Las Vegas Boulevard south of the M Resort, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. The project is expected to open in early 2016.

Speed Vegas plans to open a 1.5-mile racetrack at Sloan Road and Las Vegas Boulevard, just off Interstate 15, next spring. Visitors would be able to grab the wheel — or strap in to the passenger seat — of a Ferrari, Lamborghini ...

22 September 2015
By Eli Segall

Turnaround for downtown casinos: Gaming revenue up two fiscal years in a row

Fremont will never look the same.

More than a third of tourists polled in an authority survey last year said they visited downtown, up 6 percent from the year before ...

17 September 2015
By J.D. Morris

Great Basin National Park is Nevada’s intergalactic planetarium

A bristlecone pine in Great Basin National Park.

The 60-foot laser beam streaked like a lightsaber across the night sky, playing connect-the-dots with constellations in the plane of the Milky Way. On a hillside 300 miles northeast of Las Vegas in the Great Basin National Park, Derek Demeter controlled the light with shifts of his wrist. Each movement sent the laser on a light-years’ long course. It was 10 p.m. on a recent weekend and 300 park guests ...

17 September 2015
By Kyle Roerink

Problem-prone Las Vegas Strip escalators to be replaced

The Nevada Department of Transportation board voted Monday to approve a $35 million deal with California-based Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. The money will help replace 16 escalators that allow crowds of pedestrians to ...

14 September 2015
Associated Press

Las Vegas Convention Center experiments with tracking smartphones

Attendees fill the trade show floor at the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, at Las Vegas Convention Center.

In the past few months, signs at the Las Vegas Convention Center have sounded an ominous warning: “The Las Vegas Convention Center collects location information from mobile devices. If you prefer not to participate, please turn off your WiFi and Bluetooth function or power off.” With little fanfare, Cox Business put up the signs in anticipation of anonymously tracking ...

1 September 2015
By Daniel Rothberg

Downtown Las Vegas performers fret over bid to rein them in

Fremont Street Experience busker Jay Gelbman, who goes by Stogee Blues, makes a point during an informational meeting Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, at City Council chambers regarding an ordinance affecting performances.

On the Fremont Street pedestrian mall, Michael Troy Moore can be found wearing nothing but a G-string and a stuffed rooster on his lap ...

12 August 2015
By Kimberly Pierceall, Associated Press

Toxic spill raises rafting concerns in Grand Canyon

In this Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, photo, people kayak in the Animas River near Durango, Colo., in water colored yellow from a mine waste spill. A crew supervised by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been blamed for causing the spill while attempting to clean up the area near the abandoned Gold King Mine.

The amber-toned plume of toxic mining waste spilled by the Environmental Protection Agency near Silverton, Colo., last week, is slowly snaking its way toward Lake Powell — whose southern tip serves as an entry point to the Grand Canyon. In addition to threatening the ...

12 August 2015
By Kyle Roerink

Tourism board approves $42 million Riviera demolition plan

Traffic passes in front of the Riviera on Sunday, May 3, 2015, in Las Vegas. The casino closed at noon May 4.

The Riviera will be destroyed under a $42 million plan approved by Las Vegas tourism officials. It’s still unclear ...

11 August 2015
By J.D. Morris

Hacker summer camps crash Las Vegas this week

People arrive for the Black Hat USA 2014 hacker conference at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center Aug. 6, 2014.

When the hackers are in town, mischief is often close behind.

5 August 2015
By Daniel Rothberg

Allegiant’s second-quarter earnings are up 62 percent from last year

In this Thursday, May 9, 2013, photo, an airline ground worker guides an incoming Allegiant Air jetliner at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

The airline, with small base fares and a large menu of add-on fees, flew more people in the second quarter compared with a year earlier but, to fliers’ delight, charged less money per ticket ...

29 July 2015
By Eli Segall

Las Vegas hosts 21 million visitors in 6 months

Tourists take photos at the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign Saturday, March 14, 2015, on the Strip.

Tourism officials say more than 21 million people have visited Las Vegas in the first half of 2015, about 1.5 percent more than a year ago when ...

28 July 2015
Associated Press

Tourism authority committee votes for $42 million Riviera demolition plan

Lights are shown on the Riviera facade Sunday, May 3, 2015, before the casino closed.

The shuttered Riviera inched closer to destruction today when a subgroup of the Las Vegas tourism authority voted in favor of plans to demolish it for $42 million. A Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority committee considered ...

28 July 2015
By J.D. Morris

Mob Museum in Las Vegas to open soccer scandal exhibit

A view of the Mob Museum, the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, in downtown Las Vegas Wednesday, Feb.13, 2013.

The Mob Museum in Las Vegas is setting up an exhibit dedicated to the FIFA corruption scandal. The permanent display entitled "The 'Beautiful Game' Turns Ugly" will open at ...

28 July 2015
Associated Press

Las Vegas Sands’ earnings drop 30 percent as Macau problems reverberate

Las Vegas Sands Corp. owns the Venetian and Palazzo.

CEO Sheldon Adelson admitted in a statement that the high-end gaming market in Macau was particularly challenging, but he said his company is focused on the mass market and nongaming segments ...

22 July 2015
By J.D. Morris

Bleisure: Sightseeing day adds sanity, fun to business trip

Chandran shows Sashee Chandran stands outside Shangri La, a historic home and museum that houses a collection of Islamic art in Honolulu, July 10, 2015. Chandran, who owns a small tea company called tea drops, was in Hawaii for a trade show.

Jeanne Achille used to find business travel "really depressing" because she never got to sightsee in the places she was visiting. But these days, Achille, s "quite intentional" about flying in early for ...

16 July 2015
By Beth J. Harpaz, Associated Press
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