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.
The price of gasoline in Nevada fell this month for the first time since September, according to AAA numbers released today. The Silver State’s average price for a gallon of gas is $3.72, a drop of 22 cents from last month, but still up 85 cents from a year ago when the average was $2.87, the auto club said.
Recent searches on travel websites might be an indication that the summer visitor forecast for Las Vegas is heating up. Las Vegas was the most searched destination for hotels for summer travel on Kayak.com, a price-comparison travel website.
Imagine the potential for Southern Nevada’s resort community if it has access to millions of customers within a relatively easy two-hour trip on a fast train. Southern California residents could make a last-minute decision to spend a weekend in Las Vegas and get here and back quickly and safely.
Las Vegas recorded a visitor volume increase of 4.8 percent in April over the previous year, according to numbers released today by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
Delta Air Lines is a monstrous legacy air carrier with hundreds of flights to hundreds of cities worldwide, but with Las Vegas just another of its destinations, most people have never gotten overly excited about its presence here.
It doesn’t happen very often that Rossi Ralenkotter, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, skips a meeting with a news media representative when it involves talking about tourism in Southern Nevada.
Despite rising gasoline, airfare and hotel prices, more Americans are expected to travel for Memorial Day weekend this year, and Las Vegas is the No. 1 destination, according to some travel experts.
Celebrities and bikinis have become fixtures on the Strip pool party scene where the liquor flows from morning straight through to when nightclubs open.
