“The Las Vegas Health and Wellness Destination Guide,” a 176-page book offering information to patients traveling to Las Vegas for medical procedures, will be unveiled this week at the fourth annual World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress in Chicago.
They met in separate, completely unrelated conventions in halls about a mile apart. But their messages were strikingly similar: Why is the federal government making it so difficult for us to thrive?
September’s passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport was 8.7 percent higher than last September, the largest such increase this year. The month gives McCarran its ninth straight month of increases in traffic.
Las Vegas has taken center stage in a bid to attract more business travelers to the United States, a key component in the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s goal of increasing the percentage of foreign visitors here from 18 percent to 30 percent by 2021.
You're in luck if the cooler temperatures in the valley have made you eager for winter sports. The Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort became among the first in the country to open a ski lift early this morning after nine inches of snow fell on Mount Charleston this week.
In the coming days, the tarmac at the Henderson Executive Airport will be turned into a first-class showroom for business jets as part of a national aviation convention. The event is expected to draw 25,000 people to the valley and have an economic impact of about $40 million.
The folks at McCarran International Airport had a pretty cool idea to enlist some Las Vegas celebrities to guide passengers through the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint procedure.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority began rolling out two new “What happens here, stays here” television advertisements this week, investing between $10 million and $15 million in network and cable media buys.
State tourism leaders trying to figure out the best way to brand Nevada to attract visitors may have a bigger challenge on their hands than they thought.
No walls were knocked down, no towers went up, but the Plaza has an entirely new look. The resort’s yearlong, $35 million overhaul is complete. “They’ve had mini-makeovers, but nothing this extensive," spokeswoman Amy Maier said.
