Tourism

Las Vegas home rentals offer good deals for travelers

Although Las Vegas has more hotel rooms than any other city in America, there are some travelers who prefer distinctly different accommodations when visiting Sin City - someone else's house.

19 April 2011

Just build it already: Why Las Vegas can't land a pro sports team

Just build it already: Why Las Vegas can't land a pro sports team

We’re at the home of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo!” Boyd Polhamus’ booming voice asserts. “Let it be here for forever! VIVA LAS VEGAS!”

18 April 2011
By John Katsilometes

McCarran sees passenger boost for third straight month

A Southwest Airlines plane flies over Las Vegas.

McCarran International Airport scored a third consecutive month of increasing passenger counts in March. Las Vegas’ airport served 3,564,841 arriving and departing passengers in March, a 2.2 percent increase when compared to March 2010.

15 April 2011
By Kyle B. Hansen

Las Vegas drive-in traffic drops as gas prices spike

Wally Haim of Chicago fills up his car on Las Vegas Boulevard South Thursday, April 14, 2011.

Derek Randolph got a rude send-off from Las Vegas after spending a week here with his wife. The two made a quick stop Thursday morning at a ARCO gas station to fill up their rental car before returning it and flying home to Minnesota.

14 April 2011
By Kyle B. Hansen

Proposed LVCVA budget calls for revenue, spending at 2005 levels

A view of the Las Vegas Strip from the top of Tropicana on Saturday, March 26, 2011.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors on Tuesday got its first look at a proposed budget for the 2012 fiscal year, a $230 million plan with revenue and spending on par with 2005 levels and a 7 percent reduction in advertising expenses compared to last year.

12 April 2011
By Richard N. Velotta

Rural Nevada markets also targeting international tourists

The Casablanca in Mesquite was one of three gaming resorts owned by Black Gaming.

For those Las Vegas tourism enterprises that think they’ve had it rough during the Great Recession, consider the plight of companies in rural counties.

9 April 2011
By Richard N. Velotta

Las Vegas records 12th straight month of visitor increases

The Las Vegas Strip on March 26, 2011.

February brought Las Vegas its 12th consecutive month of increases in visitation, according to numbers released today. The number of visitors in February increased by 1 percent from about 2.85 million visitors in February 2010 to more than 2.88 million this past February, according to a monthly report from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

8 April 2011
By Amanda Finnegan

Gaming board told Marriott plans hotel across from Convention Center

Show attendees file into the Las Vegas Convention Center in this 2009 file photo. The state Gaming Control Board was told that Marriott International is interested in building a hotel on the other side of Paradise Road, which would seek to lure convention attendees.

Once the economy gets back on track, the 16 acres across Paradise Road from the Las Vegas Convention Center could be developed into a 3,500-room resort hotel, the state Gaming Control Board was told Wednesday.

6 April 2011
By Richard N. Velotta

Disasters: Can Las Vegas and its businesses handle the unthinkable?

A tsunami approaches seashore houses in Kita Ibaraki, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, Friday, March 11, 2011.

For a city whose fortunes have been built on the luck of the draw, Las Vegas has had it pretty good on the disaster front. We never get tornadoes or hurricanes. But a microburst during a thunderstorm did knock down a $9 million Las Vegas Hilton sign in 1994.

4 April 2011
By Richard N. Velotta

The DesertXpress media event was a dud. Trouble for high-speed rail?

Richard N. Velotta

Here’s the checklist for a recent press conference designed to boost public confidence in a $6 billion high-speed rail line being built between Las Vegas and Southern California:

4 April 2011
By Richard N. Velotta

They're baaaaaack: The return of the Las Vegas tourist

GIRLS GONE MILD Clearly it wouldn't be accurate to call Las Vegas boring. But we seem to have been sapped of some of our creativity by corporate consolidation on the Strip.

Here is the scene at Spago in Caesars Palace on a rainy night in January 2008: A table full of guys, dressed expensively and badly. Although there wasn’t such a thing then as Jersey Shore, this crew would’ve been perfect for the genre.

4 April 2011
By J. Patrick Coolican

Debut Mexican airline already adding more Las Vegas flights

Mayor Oscar Goodman presents Volaris CEO Enrique Beltranena with a key to the city after the Mexican airline made its inaugural arrival at McCarran International Airport Wednesday, March 30, 2011.

How successful do executives of Mexican discount air carrier Volaris think its new nonstop air service between Guadalajara and Las Vegas will be? Successful enough to announce on the day of its inaugural flight that it is adding service on May 20.

30 March 2011
By Richard N. Velotta

Gas prices, decline in consumer confidence rattle Las Vegas

Officials in Las Vegas worry a decline in consumer confidence nationwide, combined with higher gas prices, could hurt tourism to the city. The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index on Tuesday stood at its lowest level in three months.

Consumer confidence has been shaken as gas prices have topped $4 a gallon in some locations, raising concerns about the near-term recovery of the U.S. jobs market and the Las Vegas economy, according to figures released today by The Conference Board.

29 March 2011
By Dave Berns

Study to help determine how best to market to Chinese

I never thought much about traveling to Asia until the day former Sun Executive Editor Mike O’Callaghan called me into his office one day and asked me if I’d like to go to Taiwan as part of a program the Taiwanese government had developed.

28 March 2011
By Richard N. Velotta

Annual tourism report: Length of stay up, number who gamble down

The average Las Vegas tourist spent more and stayed longer in 2010 compared to a year earlier, a positive sign for the city's ailing tourism industry.

24 March 2011
By Amanda Finnegan
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