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.
Fall weekends draw big crowds to Las Vegas, but this weekend’s three big events — the UNLV football opener against Hawaii, the Mayweather-Ortiz boxing match and Mexican Independence Day — are driving even better numbers.
Las Vegas failed to make the list of the world’s top 10 most vacation-worthy cities in a survey of readers of Travel + Leisure magazine. And it didn’t even make the top 10 in the United States and Canada.
Allegiant Travel Co., parent company of Las Vegas-based Allegiant Airlines, is the 64th fastest-growing company in the nation, according to Fortune magazine.
With quiet skies and empty hotel rooms, the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., on Las Vegas was nothing short of fascinating.
Caesars Palace is quietly putting out the word to its rewards club members that after a two-year delay, its Octavius Tower will be completed by Jan. 2 and that room reservations are being accepted.
Metro Police said today they are increasing security on the Las Vegas Strip and at McCarran International Airport this weekend as part of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
When billionaire candy tycoon Forrest Mars Sr. retired and moved to Henderson in the late 1970s, the man who invented M&Ms and the Mars bar wanted to make chocolates distinct from the ones that made him a fortune. The man, referred to as a “modern day Willie Wonka” and the “Howard Hughes of candy,” chose a spot near Sunset Road and Mountain Vista Street and opened a gourmet chocolate factory named in honor of his mother.
