The fastest growing commercial air carrier at McCarran International Airport in 2011 will have a head start toward keeping that status next year with the announcement of two new flights beginning in February.
Tourism is a complex machine and its numerous cogs — federal policymakers, state government leaders, convention and visitors bureaus, industry strategists and the airport — came together Wednesday to map out how they can team to lead Nevada out of its economic doldrums.
Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki says Nevada has agreed with officials in California to make a run at hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics at Lake Tahoe. If successful, the bid would bring the games back to where they were held in 1960.
With the Nevada Commission on Tourism six months away from unveiling the state’s new tourism branding message, commissioners agreed Tuesday to double their meeting schedule next year to offer more frequent feedback to their new director on the project.
Gov. Brian Sandoval told tourism leaders that they’ll be working arm in arm with economic development experts to rebuild Nevada’s economy as he opened the 26th Governor’s Conference on Tourism at the Rio on Tuesday. The 1 1/2-day conference brings tourism leaders from across the state together to discuss strategies to attract visitors.
More than 26,000 people have signed an online pledge not to break the code by “tweeting, tagging, posting, telling, whispering, emoting, defining, drawing up, writing about or in any way revealing” their Las Vegas “moment.”
It’s been nearly four years since the Governor’s Conference on Tourism made an appearance in Las Vegas. Not coincidentally, that’s roughly the same time frame as the span of the Great Recession and former Gov. Jim Gibbons’ term of office.
There’s some good news this week for recession-weary Las Vegas. Travel experts say more visitors are coming, adding millions of dollars to the local economy. And, officials say, our roads and airport are ready for crowds, so locals shouldn’t be afraid to head out of town.
The Thanksgiving holiday weekend is about family, food and football, but it’s also the gateway to another Las Vegas favorite: heavily discounted room rates.
At a recent meeting discussing plans for DesertXpress' high-speed rail to Victorville, I found myself wondering why a room full of experts didn't question some of the flaws of the proposed system.
It was one of those comic-relief moments of the monthly Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority meeting. Brenda Siddall, the LVCVA’s vice president of finance, faced the board and its chairman, former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, to talk about tax collections, financial forecasts and how tourism marketing was faring during the stormy days of the recession.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is ready to have fun again. In announcing a three-year, multitiered destination innovation and leadership plan to the LVCVA board of directors, President and CEO Rossi Ralenkotter announced the city would play host to a birthday party for one of the most storied boxing champions in history, Muhammad Ali.
We’ve been told over and over that there’s no quick fix for Nevada’s grinding unemployment and underwater mortgages. So how about an extra hour of daylight to brighten these dark days? From the Internet comes a provocative idea: Nevada should part ways with the Pacific time zone and join Arizona, Idaho and Utah in the Mountain time zone. On a day like today it would push sunset from 4:32 p.m. to 5:32 p.m. — ending the depressing late-fall phenomenon of leaving work at 5 p.m. only to find night has fallen.
A seller of sightseeing tours on the Las Vegas Strip is denying lawsuit allegations that it wrongly hired a competitor’s former workers and stole its trade secrets. One Stop Ticket and Tour Shop Inc. filed suit last month in Clark County District Court against Adventures International LLC.
