Tourism

Hospitality industry served ideas to improve customer service in Las Vegas

With the marketers of Las Vegas stepping up their games to attract more visitors to the city from overseas, the hospitality industry needs to sharpen its hosting skills to keep customers happy and turn them into repeat customers, a panel of industry experts said.

18 October 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Coalition shifts focus from Olympics to bringing other competitions to Nevada

With the U.S. Olympic Committee bagging a U.S. bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, a coalition of winter sports enthusiasts will focus instead on attracting other sports competitions to the state, including the possibility of bringing a curling event to Las Vegas.

17 October 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Downtown casino to Culinary workers: Union protest Saturday will cut into your tips

A view looking toward the Fremont Street Experience canopy from the Neonopolis mall in downtown Las Vegas Wednesday, August 1, 2012.

A massive protest slated Saturday in downtown Las Vegas stems, in part, from demands by the Culinary Union for a 15-cent increase to workers' health and pension funds.

12 October 2012
By Joe Schoenmann

'What happens here' has been a hit everywhere

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

While there are dozens of classic examples of ad campaigns gone wrong when they’re translated into foreign languages, “What happens here, stays here” as a pitch for Las Vegas appears to have broad international appeal.

11 October 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Southern Nevada visitor volume up slightly in August

Tourists walk on the Las Vegas Strip on Thursday, April 28, 2011.

Visitor volume was up slightly in Southern Nevada in August compared to last year, thanks primarily to conventions that were here this year and not in 2011 and an uptick in auto traffic from California.

10 October 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Nevada gaming revenue off 3.1 percent in August

Gaming revenue in Nevada was down 3.1 percent in August compared to the same month a year ago, with Las Vegas Strip revenue down 1.1 percent, the state Gaming Control Board reports.

10 October 2012
By Cy Ryan

Two major conventions extend contracts in Las Vegas

Attendees crowd a South Hall aisle during the Specialty Equipment Market Association trade show at Las Vegas Convention Center on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011.

Representatives of two major conventions that annually rank among the top five shows in Las Vegas by attendance and are expected to produce a non-gaming economic impact of more than $1.4 billion over five years have signed new contracts with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association, and MAGIC, Men’s Apparel Guild in California, signed deals that will keep them at the Las Vegas Convention Center for five and three years, respectively.

9 October 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Know the rules of the road

A view of traffic on I-15 looking northbound from the new Warm Springs Road overpass Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. Officials celebrated the "grand opening" of the I-15 South Design-Build Project with a ceremony Wednesday. Construction on the $246 million highway improvement project started in Spring 2010.

It’s evident every time I go for a drive just how bad the motorists of Southern Nevada are. We treat Interstate 15 like a NASCAR track. Not a day goes by that I don’t see a high-speed moving violation on my commute between home and work.

8 October 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Californians wake up to huge spike in gas prices

Motorist Tony Klein fills up his 1967 Cutlass V-8 at a gas station in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. Motorists in California paid an average of $4.232 per gallon Wednesday. That’s 45 cents higher than the national average and exceeded only by Hawaii among the 50 states.

Californians woke up to a shock Friday as overnight gasoline prices jumped by as much as 20 cents a gallon in some areas, ending a week of soaring costs that saw some stations close and others charge record prices.

5 October 2012
By Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press

Report: 2012 Electric Daisy Carnival brought in $207 million to Clark County

Festivalgoers listen to electronic dance music at the Circuit Grounds stage during the final night of the Electric Daisy Carnival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday, June 10, 2012.

Insomniac, the organizer behind June’s Electric Daisy Carnival, says the three-day event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway brought in an estimated $207 million to the Clark County economy. ...

2 October 2012
By Andrea Domanick

Las Vegas Mob Museum sees its 100,000th visitor

The Mob Museum is shown before the grand opening in downtown Las Vegas, Tuesday February 14, 2012. The building, a former federal courthouse and post office, was completed in 1933 and is listed on the Nevada and National Registers of Historic Places. It is also one of 14 sites in the nation that hosted the 1950-51 U.S. Senate Special Committees to investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce, also known as the Kefauver hearings.

The Las Vegas Mob Museum recently recorded its 100,000th visitor and is on track to reach 200,000 by the end of the year, Executive Director Jonathan Ullman said.

2 October 2012
By Dave Toplikar

Passenger growth expected at McCarran International Airport

A view of signage at McCarran International Airport's Terminal 3, Feb. 1, 2012.

After five years of airline capacity bleeding out of McCarran and a corresponding decline in domestic passenger counts, there may now be some good news on the horizon for Las Vegas. Two well-respected aviation analysts expect growth at the airport that serves Las Vegas over the next five years.

1 October 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Caesars touting tenants at Linq project

This is an artist's rendering of the High Roller and Linq project.

A Brooklyn Bowl entertainment venue, a Yard House beer bar and an Asian-themed food and art marketplace are among anchor tenants coming to a master-planned complex being built at the base of a big new Strip observation wheel, Caesars Entertainment Corp. officials will announce Monday.

30 September 2012
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press

Murals add panache in upgrade of standard rooms at the Palms

A look at the newly renovated rooms at the Palms, Friday Sept. 28, 2012.

The latest renovation complete at the Palms is a redesign of 370 standard guest rooms.

29 September 2012
By Ron Sylvester

Passenger traffic up at Las Vegas airport for August

A Spirit Airlines jet takes off from McCarran International Airport on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011.

McCarran International Airport passenger counts inched upward in August, reversing a two-month trend of slight declines.

28 September 2012
By Richard N. Velotta
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