With Las Vegas boasting themes like “Just the right amount of Wrong” and “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” it’s hard to believe the Strip would cater to families and tourists not old enough to feed a slot machine.
The LVCVA took a pass on getting involved with last month’s Electric Daisy Carnival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Today, authority board members were singing a different tune.
May brought Las Vegas its 15th straight month of visitation and room rate gains, according to numbers released today. The number of visitors for May increased by 3.3 percent from 3.26 million in 2010 to 3.37 in 2011, according to a monthly LVCVA report.
We’ve all done our fair share of complaining about the hassles we encounter at those airport security checkpoints. But how many people would be willing to enroll in—and pay for—a trusted traveler program that offers less screening?
Today’s Strip pool parties are a much different scene than the resort pools of yesteryear, where the high roller’s wife might park herself for a tan and an umbrella drink before meeting her husband for a show and dinner after a day of gambling.
On any given summer Sunday, a line forms as early as 7 a.m. and stretches through the Hard Rock Hotel. Patrons are dressed in their Sunday bests—barely-there bikinis and sky-high heels or board shorts and white tanks—waiting to worship at the mecca of the daylife scene.
The Fourth of July is once again expected to lure visitors in big numbers to the Las Vegas Valley, but for one of the first times since the recession, they’re expected to spend more this holiday weekend.
The Nevada Tourism Commission has launched a new website catering to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. The site, gay.travelnevada.com, lists events of interest to the gay community and LGBT-friendly hotel properties.
The Electric Daisy Carnival, North America’s largest electronic music festival, lands in Las Vegas this weekend, with an expected 250,000 visitors in tow. If crowd predictions prove true, it will be the second largest Las Vegas event ever.
Admit it, you’re getting tired of Las Vegas being at the top of all those bad lists. But fear not. We do have some sources of community pride that are as good as or better than any worldwide.
We’re entering some uncharted waters with a big event coming to town this month. This weekend, a first-ever-in-Vegas event lands here when the Electric Daisy Carnival debuts at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The Nevada Tourism Commission got its first view of its new-look agency that will include the Museums and History Division, the Nevada Arts Council and the Nevada Indian Commission when it consolidates in October.
Tax dollars have to be a part of the financing package for a Las Vegas sports arena to be built, two panelists addressing a real estate association on tourism issues concurred today.
When McCarran International Airport’s $2.4 billion Terminal 3 opens a year from now, Terminal 2, the eight-gate charter and international concourse north of the airport’s main facility, will be torn down.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors today approved contracts for 10 international offices and an extension of its advertising agreement with R&R Partners as it said goodbye to five elected officials, including its chairman, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman.
