Tourism

Earnings up 26.5 percent at Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel

An Allegiant Air jet takes off from McCarran International Airport on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011.

With two key revenue streams still on the horizon, the parent company of Allegiant Air on Wednesday reported a 23.1 percent increase in revenue and a 26.5 percent increase in earnings for the quarter that ended March 31.

25 April 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Maverick Aviation expands its fleet of tour aircraft

Maverick Aviation Group has added three high-wing Cessna Grand Caravan 208 planes to its fleet of tour aircraft.

The Maverick Aviation Group says it has added three planes ideally suited to Grand Canyon air-tour flights to its fleet at Henderson Executive Airport.

25 April 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Las Vegas Strip snubbed in voting for Nevada tourism gems

The Valley of Fire State Park.

Quick, name places in Southern Nevada that tourists love. The Strip, obviously, and Hoover Dam and its sidekick, the new O’Callaghan-Tillman Bridge, right?

20 April 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

With Allegiant shaking up Las Vegas-Hawaii air market, how will Southwest respond?

An Allegiant Air jet takes off from McCarran International Airport.

The skies over the South Pacific and the air routes between Hawaii and its ninth island, Las Vegas, will be filling up in the months ahead.

18 April 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

County to expand parking lot at Las Vegas welcome sign

Tourists pose in front of the iconic Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign Tuesday, March 6, 2012.

The 10-space parking lot at the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign has become so popular that Clark County will spend $500,000 to add 20 more spaces. On the median of Las Vegas Boulevard South, near Mandalay Bay, the 53-year-old sign is ground zero for tourists, who flock to the Las Vegas icon to have their picture taken.

17 April 2012
By Joe Schoenmann

These couples defy tradition, opt for Friday the 13th weddings

Dixie Woodham and Christopher Dean, of Denton Texas, stand before the Grim Reaper, played by Ron DeCar, during a "Grim Reaper" themed wedding at Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel, Friday April 13, 2012.

Christopher Dean’s gold front tooth sparkled as he smiled and watched his redheaded bride in a white mermaid-style wedding dress walk down the aisle. The grim reaper would marry them, after creeping out of an upright casket. “ 'Cause death do us part,” said bride Dixie Woodham, as to why she desired a ghoulish-themed wedding on what is usually considered an unlucky day.

14 April 2012
By Gregan Wingert

LVCVA report provides snapshot of the prototypical Las Vegas visitor

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

The prototypical Las Vegas visitor in 2011 was a 49-year-old, white, married, Southern California man who has a college degree and earns $100,000 a year or more.

11 April 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Las Vegas tourism numbers continue steady climb

Tourists pose in front of the iconic Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign Tuesday, March 6, 2012.

Southern Nevada’s tourism numbers continued to climb in February, aided by the return of some conventions and trade shows, calendar shifts that landed shows in that month and an extra day courtesy of Leap Year.

10 April 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Cabby turnout at meeting may have influenced denial of more taxis for big event

A taxi cab drives down the Strip Thursday, April 28, 2011.

When the National Association of Broadcasters brings its annual convention to Las Vegas next week, there won’t be any additional taxicabs to accommodate the more than 100,000 conventioneers expected to be in town.

9 April 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Motel-insurance dispute shifts to state's top court

A federal appeals court has directed the Nevada Supreme Court to decide whether an insurance company or a casino-motel in Yerington was responsible for providing the coverage for two people who died of acute carbon monoxide poisoning in their room.

9 April 2012
By Cy Ryan

Can Las Vegas, a city of excess, become a health destination?

Can Las Vegas, a city of excess, become a health destination?

You might say Gary Kuntz is a regular at Planet Hollywood. Lots of people at the Strip resort know him. The doormen. The bell staffers. The bartenders. “Those people are incredible,” Kuntz said of the Planet Hollywood crew. Yet Kuntz, a CPA in private practice in Bozeman, Mont., isn’t a high-roller. In fact, the main reason he comes to Las Vegas is to be treated for prostate cancer. In his last trip to Las Vegas in late March, he flew from Bozeman and his first stop was to see his doctors at Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada.

9 April 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

House investigators: Budget-busting GSA also spent too much on employee incentives

Late Vegas wasn’t the only place the General Services Administration was spending outside its budget. Government investigators found the GSA’s Public Building Service, which spent $823,000 at the M Resort last year, had also been busting the bank rewarding good workers.

7 April 2012
By Karoun Demirjian

Revamped look has the Stratosphere standing taller these days

A view of the Stratosphere Tower Thursday, April 5, 2012.

For years, the Stratosphere towered over the Las Vegas Strip as a monument to the past, like shag carpet under a chandelier. As casinos to the south spent billions to be the brightest, the Stratosphere’s best view in the city faded into the brown carpet of its rooms with an entrance that beckoned people away from the Strip and through a back door.

6 April 2012
By Ron Sylvester

Las Vegas tourism officials urge changes to lure more visitors to U.S.

Tourists walk down the Strip near Planet Hollywood Thursday, April 28, 2011.

Agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration will be ordered to put on their happy faces as part of a bid to make the United States a friendlier place to visit.

4 April 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Commissioner says Strip 'way out of control,' as county moves ahead with cleanup

A handbiller outside the Flamingo just north of Flamingo Road on the Strip passes out cards for an escort service in May 2010.

The Las Vegas Strip has become an obstacle course for tourists challenged to navigate overflowing trash cans, pedestrian bottlenecks, panhandlers and handbillers. But county commissioners think recommendations by a committee largely made up of casino executives will clean it up. The ideas include surveillance cameras, more police and ordinances regulating handbillers, adult-content newsracks and panhandlers. “We don’t want...the Las Vegas Strip (to become) a ‘Nightmare on Las Vegas Boulevard,’” Commissioner Lawrence Weekly said. “We have to do something because the Strip is getting way out of control.” Weekly voted with other commissioners to accept a report from the Strip Corridor ...

3 April 2012
By Joe Schoenmann
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