It was cosmic happenstance that the center line along the path of Sunday’s annular eclipse was just north of the place USA Today has dubbed the “No. 1 stargazing destination in America.”
The Internet has become a game-changer for the travel industry. But it was also a job-killer. Thousands of travel agency professionals lost their jobs, and small mom-and-pop agencies either were absorbed by giant travel companies or disappeared.
Building on the quality of health care in Southern Nevada is the most important element in developing a thriving medical tourism industry, an all-star panel of doctors agreed in a symposium designed to advance the concept.
Two Southern Nevada snack food manufacturing companies will receive federal training grants in connection with their respective plant expansions that will provide more than 100 new jobs.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has rejected a proposal by Sun Country Airlines to offer daily nonstop flights between Las Vegas and Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport.
Allegiant Air, which last month announced plans to offer nonstop flights between McCarran International Airport and Honolulu beginning June 29, has filled out its Hawaii schedule with routes beginning next fall from Santa Maria and Stockton, Calif., Bellingham, Wash., and Eugene, Ore.
With the state about a month away from granting its first online gambling license, two experts told members of the Gaming Policy Committee on Monday that regulators have to stay vigilant in their efforts to keep the online gaming environment secure.
Former Mayor Oscar Goodman was in his element last week, taking the stage at a major financial services industry conference, martini in hand and showgirls on each arm.
ESPN and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority begin a new television and digital promotion for Las Vegas today which includes a contest that will send three people to play golf with “SportsCenter” anchor Jay Harris.
Gov. Brian Sandoval cemented the foundation for the international component of Nevada’s economic development plan Friday, hosting the consuls general of 38 countries and a Canadian province with which the state hopes to build long-term business relationships.
Germany's second-largest airline began nonstop flights between Dusseldorf, Germany, and McCarran International Airport on Thursday, providing a new low-fare option for travel to Europe and an alternative routing for the estimated 60,000 German tourists who fly to Las Vegas each year.
Las Vegas visitor volume continued to climb in March despite a drop in convention attendance, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported Thursday.
The approval of online gaming wouldn’t negatively impact land-based casinos, the head of the industry’s largest association says. Frank Fahrenkopf, president and CEO of the American Gaming Association, said if anything, the approval of Internet gambling would expand existing operations, because younger players more comfortable with online transactions would start gambling online and eventually find their way to local casinos.
The multimillion-dollar overhaul of the Las Vegas Convention Center that was torpedoed when the economy tanked is on again, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors was told Tuesday.
Raise, bonus still make his earnings lower than national average
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority President and CEO Rossi Ralenkotter is in line for a 4 percent pay increase and a performance bonus of nearly $80,000.
Thousands of people have confirmed what many Southern Nevada residents have known all along — that Valley of Fire State Park is one of the state’s tourism treasures.
A 9.8 percent increase in revenue from Macau helped offset an 8.1 percent decline in Las Vegas, causing Wynn Resorts Ltd. to report lower profits in the first quarter of 2012. Maybe that’s why CEO Steve Wynn chose to whet the appetites of analysts with a few new details about his planned new resort on Macau’s Cotai Strip during this afternoon’s conference call on earnings.
Travel + Leisure magazine asked its readers to weigh in on the nation’s best airports based on seven categories: flight timeliness, design, amenities, food and drink, check-in and security, service, and transportation and location. Not surprisingly, McCarran International Airport fared well.
The “international” in McCarran International Airport will be highlighted three times in the next two months, beginning with next week’s inaugural arrival of nonstop flights on Air Berlin from Dusseldorf, Germany.
Las Vegas maintained its grip on the unofficial title of top convention and meetings host in the United States in 2011 as home to 55 of the nation’s top 250 trade shows.
When Gov. Brian Sandoval ordered state agencies to find regulations that are in need of updating or no longer relevant, it didn't take long for the state Gaming Control Board to zero in on repealing a regulation for a game that hasn't been played in the state in more than 30 years.
The state’s two gaming regulatory boards are close to getting a new executive secretary. Sally Elloyan, who has served in several capacities within the Gaming Control Board as well as in the industry, was recommended Wednesday for the position in a unanimous Control Board vote.
Riviera Holdings Corp. will invest $20 million to $30 million to refurbish the Riviera on the Strip. The proceeds from the sale of Riviera’s property in Black Hawk, Colo., will be reinvested in the Las Vegas property, the company said.
The Governor’s Office of Economic Development took another step toward the makeover of how the state attracts, expands and retains companies on Tuesday when state officials opened requests for proposals to form newly minted regional development authorities.
First Lady Michelle Obama energized campaign workers in Las Vegas on Tuesday with a pep rally appearance for the president that hearkened to the grass-roots efforts that got him elected in 2008. Addressing about 300 workers at the Springs Preserve, near where she spoke earlier at a private fundraiser, she thanked volunteers for their efforts but reminded them that they needed to continue their work if they’re going to be successful in returning her husband to the White House.
Spirit Airlines, the fastest-growing commercial air carrier at McCarran International Airport in 2011, produced earnings in line with analysts’ expectations for the first quarter this year.
In their earnings conference call last week, Allegiant Air executives fielded an interesting question from analysts. Would the company consider initiating a fee for passengers to have a seat that reclines when the airline initiates its six-hour flights between Las Vegas and Honolulu? The executives said no, they wouldn’t, because none of the seats on the airline’s Boeing 757 jets recline.
Passenger traffic continued to rise at McCarran International Airport in March, with international arrivals and performances by airlines known for charging high ancillary fees bumping totals 2.5 percent higher than last year.
With two key revenue streams still on the horizon, the parent company of Allegiant Air on Wednesday reported a 23.1 percent increase in revenue and a 26.5 percent increase in earnings for the quarter that ended March 31.
The Maverick Aviation Group says it has added three planes ideally suited to Grand Canyon air-tour flights to its fleet at Henderson Executive Airport.
The designer of some of the most successful slot machine games in history — Blazing 7s and the Black and White slot series — has died in a traffic accident in Las Vegas. Robert Phillip Manz, who had a 23-year career with the predecessor companies of Bally Technologies, was 65.
Airline analysts are growing more confident that American Airlines and US Airways will merge — a move that probably wouldn’t have a big impact on Las Vegas’ flight schedules but could force ticket prices to go up.
One of the things I didn’t report in the series of stories I wrote about the recent Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling was that all of the speakers appeared on their own dime. The Nevada Council on Problem Gambling’s reason for not cutting expense checks to presenters isn’t that it’s cheap. The organization can’t afford it — it’s a nonprofit that operates on donations and memberships.
Quick, name places in Southern Nevada that tourists love. The Strip, obviously, and Hoover Dam and its sidekick, the new O’Callaghan-Tillman Bridge, right?
Southern Nevada taxi drivers made their case for reducing the number of cabs on valley streets in a new venue. And they got a familiar answer: No. The Nevada Transportation Authority rejected an appeal Thursday from two unions of last year’s Nevada Taxicab Authority approval of permanent cab allocations.
Southern Nevada taxi drivers made their case for reducing the number of cabs on valley streets in a new venue. But they got a familiar answer when the Nevada Transportation Authority rejected an appeal from two unions of last year’s Nevada Taxicab Authority approval of permanent cab allocations.
Southwest Airlines rode a stable financial strategy that helped it grow in the 1990s — a favorable fuel hedging program — to a profitable first quarter this year, surprising analysts who were anticipating a rare quarterly loss for the airline.
You’re traveling in a foreign country where you know the language and you own a portable device that you use to access broadcast signals when at home. If a disaster strikes, you can’t access an emergency broadcast system because your portable device is incompatible with the local system.
Hollywood producer James Cameron and business partner Vince Pace have already overcome many of the most challenging aspects of 3D entertainment in movies.
With the telecommunications industry pressing for bandwidth to compete with broadcasters, the president and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters said the industry’s best days are ahead.
On the day that Monsignor Kevin McAuliffe reported to the La Tuna Prison in Anthony, Texas, his embezzlement of $650,000 from the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Las Vegas — and his compulsive gambling problem — was the subject a keynote address and a panel at the close of the sixth-annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling on Friday.