Tourism

Las Vegas tops list of 'Trashiest Spring Break Destinations 2013'

Pauly "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio at the MTV Spring Break 2011 pool party at the Palms on March 6, 2011.

Las Vegas has topped numerous accolade-filled travel lists in recent months, but a recent ranking from Coed Magazine is not one of them. ...

6 March 2013
By Andrea Domanick

Iconic Las Vegas sign to give green nod to St. Patrick's Day

A view of the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign in Las Vegas, Nevada September 10, 2011.

Las Vegas may lack the rolling green hills of Ireland, but this month it won’t lack for Irish spirit. Friday marked the start of Irish-American Heritage Month and to celebrate, one of Las Vegas’s most iconic landmarks will be going green for St. Patrick’s Day weekend.

5 March 2013
By Conor Shine

Symphony Park boutique hotel developers to update council on plans

A view of the future site of the Charlie Palmer, a boutique luxury hotel and restaurant, in the Symphony Park development in downtown Las Vegas Monday Feb. 27, 2012.

The Las Vegas City Council will get a glimpse of what the future holds for Symphony Park during its regularly scheduled meeting at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

5 March 2013
By Conor Shine

May the best contractors win

Over the past three months, minority business organizations in California and Nevada have met in high-speed train diversity summits centered on the prospect of the $6.9 billion XpressWest train project planned between Las Vegas and Southern California. This week, a similar gathering pulls into Las Vegas, and local organizers are hoping it will be the best-attended summit of the series.

4 March 2013
By Richard N. Velotta

MGM Resorts announces plan for 20,000-seat arena

MGM Resorts International wants to build a privately funded, 20,000-seat indoor arena behind the New York-New York and Monte Carlo resorts that would feature boxing, top-draw headliners and special events.

1 March 2013
By Las Vegas Sun Staff

Passenger traffic dips at Las Vegas airport

In this photo provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau, British Airwaysi first flight from Londonis Gatwick Airport pulls into the gate waving the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes out of the cockpit windows after a traditional water cannon salute at McCarran International Airport on October 29, 2012.

Passenger traffic got off to a slow start at McCarran International Airport in January as airport officials reported a 1.6 percent dip for the first month of 2013. Clark County Aviation Department officials said that 3.12 million passengers used McCarran, with most of the drop-off in domestic traffic.

28 February 2013
By Richard N. Velotta

Snubbed by the Olympics, wrestling is heading to Las Vegas

In this Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, file photo Amer Hrustanovic of Austria competes against Damian Janikowski of Poland, in blue, during the 84-kg Greco-Roman wrestling competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. An official familiar with the decision says IOC leaders have dropped wrestling from the program for the 2020 Olympics. In a surprise decision Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013, the official tells The Associated Press that the IOC executive board decided to retain modern pentathlon and remove wrestling instead.

Las Vegas will host an international wrestling event in 2015 that is expected to draw thousands of people to the city and could be one of the last links the sport has with the Olympic Games. The 2015 World Wrestling Championships are slated for the 9,500-seat Orleans Arena in September of that year and will be the first and largest qualifying event to send athletes to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

27 February 2013
By Richard N. Velotta

Taxicab Authority OKs extra cabs for Electric Daisy Carnival

The Nevada Taxicab Authority will allow cab companies to put additional cars on the road during June’s Electric Daisy Carnival, but not as many as they had asked for.

26 February 2013
By Richard N. Velotta

Will tourists agree with officials' assurances that Las Vegas is safe?

Security officers at the Flamingo give instructions to tourists near the site of a shooting and multi-car accident that left three people dead and at least three injured on the Las Vegas Strip early Thursday morning, Feb. 21, 2013. Most tourists had already heard about the shooting by the afternoon but needed directions on how to navigate around the crime scene.

While police continue to search for a suspect in last week's shooting and taxi explosion that killed three people on the Strip, the question remains: Will the violence discourage people from coming to Las Vegas? Most tourism leaders say it won’t, and a local expert in crisis communications said the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority did all the right things to assure the public that Las Vegas is a safe place to visit.

26 February 2013
By Richard N. Velotta

Integrity: There’s an app for that

There are about a dozen good reasons the Nevada Taxicab Authority should adopt Frias Transportation Infrastructure’s RideIntegrity taxi monitoring software to help regulate the taxi industry. But there are a handful of reasons why it won’t.

25 February 2013
By Richard N. Velotta

Will Strip shootout and crash hurt Las Vegas tourism?

Las Vegas tourism officials say this morning’s shootout and car crash on the Strip shouldn’t discourage people from coming to the city. But it's too early to determine what effect the violence will have on tourism.

21 February 2013
By Richard N. Velotta

The reaction: Tourists try to make sense of the violence on the Strip

Wrecked cars are shown on Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Avenue as Las Vegas Metro Police investigate a shooting and multi-car accident that left three people dead and three injured on the Las Vegas Strip early Thursday morning, Feb. 21, 2013.

At any given time, hundreds of thousands of people are on the Las Vegas Strip, walking around to take in the sights, sleeping in hotel rooms or working in resorts. Early this morning, some heard the ruckus when a person in a black Range Rover opened fire on a Maserati, sending it crashing into a taxi that burst into flames, leaving three people dead and at least six injured.

21 February 2013
By Ron Sylvester

County to study easing rules to allow vacation home rentals

Short-term vacation rentals are currently outlawed in residential areas in unincorporated Clark County, but that could be changing.

20 February 2013
By Conor Shine

Governor names members of 150th Anniversary Commission

Gov. Brian Sandoval has named 13 members to the 150th Anniversary Commission to the headed by Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki. The commission will plan events to mark the 150th birthday of Nevada’s addmission to the Union in 1864.

20 February 2013
By Cy Ryan

Legislation to extend downtown hotel-room tax raises questions

The Elvis Presley tribute artist contest finals during the 2012 Ultimate Elvis Weekend at Fremont Street Experience on Saturday, May 12, 2012.

The city of Las Vegas' proposed state legislation regarding downtown redevelopment now includes extending a 20-year-old room tax an additional 25 years. And it's raising questions among downtown businesses.

19 February 2013
By Joe Schoenmann
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