Tourism

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

Passenger count soars at McCarran during February

A Southwest jet takes off as Mexican airline Volaris makes its arrival at McCarran International Airport on March 30, 2011.

Strong international air traffic and the benefit of an extra day in the month pushed McCarran International Airport’s passenger totals to the highest percentage increase in five months as 3.1 million people passed through the airport’s gates in February.

29 March 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Las Vegas visitors gambled less in 2011, survey shows

Gamblers look over a board of proposition bets at the Race and Sports Book in the Las Vegas Hilton Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011.

Las Vegas visitors are increasingly staying away from the casinos floors that made this desert city famous. A survey released Monday by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority showed visitors spent less on gambling and more on food and shopping in 2011 than in years past.

26 March 2012
Associated Press

Las Vegas tourism improvements lift revenue for the Stratosphere

The return of tourists to Las Vegas boosted fourth-quarter financial results for the owner of the Stratosphere.

22 March 2012
By Steve Green

Effect of gas prices on Las Vegas economy has been minimal so far, but resorts are wary

An aerial view of the Las Vegas Strip on Tuesday, March 13, 2012.

It’s been awhile since the Southern Nevada tourism industry experienced any gas pains. But with the price at the pump closing in on $4 a gallon, some resorts are thinking about what to do if prices continue to soar.

22 March 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Judge rules against Grand Canyon Skywalk developer

The Skywalk at Grand Canyon West on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, just after the glass panels were replaced.

A Las Vegas developer must keep fighting in tribal court as he tries to retain his contractual rights to the Grand Canyon Skywalk, a federal judge ruled Monday.

19 March 2012
Associated Press

Moody's analysts: 'The Las Vegas recovery is under way'

Tourists cross the Strip near Caesars Palace on April 28, 2011.

Analysts at Moody's Investors Service in New York have become more optimistic about business conditions for hotel-casino operators on the Las Vegas Strip. Hotel numbers in particular are looking better, Moody's said in a report Monday titled "Las Vegas Strip Gaming Recovery Brightens."

19 March 2012
By Steve Green

Visit Nevada: Tourism commission provides a good excuse to be a tourist at home

A racer barrels across the dusty valley heading into the third pitstop near Cathedral Gorge during the Bilek Racing Silver State "300" off-road race.

When I lived in Flagstaff, Ariz., I was always astonished to run into a local resident who had never been to the Grand Canyon.

19 March 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

LVCVA eyes property acquisition, increases budget

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors took its first step Tuesday toward acquiring some property — something it hasn’t done in three years because of the recession.

13 March 2012
By Richard N. Velotta
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