This year’s induction ceremony for the Gaming Hall of Fame will have a distinctive Venetian flavor. Sheldon Adelson, chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., will be joined by one of the resort’s entertainment icons, Blue Man Group, in a ceremony and charity dinner Tuesday night benefiting the National Center for Responsible Gaming at the Venetian.
Once a year, Bellinda Erikson packs a special little something in her bag and hits the road for a weekend of romance on the Las Vegas Strip. But don’t get the wrong idea. This isn’t another tale of naughtiness in Las Vegas. The little something is exercise gear.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s compensation committee is recommending a 4 percent raise and a 12.5 percent bonus for the organization’s president and CEO, Rossi Ralenkotter.
In a conference call with investors today, Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson promised to send “egg-wiping face towels” to analysts who doubted the projections he made for the company’s properties in Macau and Singapore.
The state’s new Board of Economic Development has recommended the names of three candidates for the office’s first executive director, including a longtime officer with the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.
A proposed high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Southern California has received another federal government approval from a board that grants licenses to build new railroads.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co., parent company of Allegiant Air, offset higher fuel costs with increased revenue to propel its 35th straight profitable quarter, the company said today.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co., parent company of Allegiant Air, offset higher fuel costs with increased revenue to propel its 35th straight profitable quarter, the company said today.
Claudia Vecchio has four weeks to cram for a big test. The newly appointed director of the Nevada Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs will deliver opening remarks for the two-day Governor’s Conference on Tourism beginning Nov. 29 at the Rio.
Boyd Gaming, which operates three downtown Las Vegas properties and four locals resorts in Southern Nevada, today reported a third-quarter decline in earnings on flat revenue compared to the same quarter a year ago. Executives of the company said in a conference call this morning that cash flow has improved dramatically in Las Vegas, indicating a continued improvement in the local economy.
“The Las Vegas Health and Wellness Destination Guide,” a 176-page book offering information to patients traveling to Las Vegas for medical procedures, will be unveiled this week at the fourth annual World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress in Chicago.
Executives with Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, McCarran International Airport's busiest air carrier, blamed an increase in fuel costs and bad fuel-hedging bets for a rare loss reported by the company today.
Owners of corporate aircraft are breathing a little easier this week after the Senate dropped a proposal to add a $100-per-flight fee on business planes that had been part of President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act tax plan targeting the wealthy.
They met in separate, completely unrelated conventions in halls about a mile apart. But their messages were strikingly similar: Why is the federal government making it so difficult for us to thrive?
The state Economic Development Commission has formally asked the state Attorney General’s Office for an opinion on whether the use of a catalyst fund to entice companies to relocate or expand in Nevada is constitutional.
A Honolulu company that manufactures and sells indoor and outdoor LED lights, marketing exclusively in Japan, will relocate to Las Vegas and use it as a base to enter the North American market.
An airfare sale initiated by Southwest Airlines has blossomed into a fare war among discount air carriers serving McCarran International Airport, enabling local residents to fly to Southern California for less than $70 round trip.
Representatives of the AeroMexico, the airport and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority gathered at McCarran’s international Terminal 2 this afternoon for the kickoff of service to Guadalajara.
A Southern Nevada rural neighborhood organization has sent a letter to the Federal Railroad Administration calling the proposed DesertXpress high-speed rail plan "a complete farce."
When the tires of your car kiss the curbing at the front of a space in the parking garage, consider this: That nondescript block on the ground may have been your desktop computer in a prior lifetime.
Las Vegas has taken center stage in a bid to attract more business travelers to the United States, a key component in the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s goal of increasing the percentage of foreign visitors here from 18 percent to 30 percent by 2021.
Southern Nevada will have a tough time overcoming its shortcomings as a site for companies seeking relocation sites, said speakers at a gathering of commercial real estate developers.
A survey of more than 1,150 gaming industry professionals at this week’s Global Gaming Expo finds most participants are optimistic that 2012 will be a good year for the industry.
While the American Gaming Association is calling for regulatory reforms, rapidly changing technology and iGaming opportunities will present new issues for regulators to consider when they set policy and interpret legislative intent.
MGM Resorts International CEO Jim Murren brushed aside pessimism over the economy and shared pieces of his company’s growth strategy in a keynote address at the Global Gaming Expo.
Sometimes, all it takes is an occasional surprise to generate enthusiasm in table games, panelists said Wednesday at the Global Gaming Expo. The point: Sometimes, all it takes is an occasional surprise to generate enthusiasm.
Read a few casino player forum comments online and you’ll know that changing the blackjack payout from 3:2 to 6:5 — that is, paying $6 for every $5 wagered instead of $3 for every $2 bet on natural 21s — is heresy.
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 American Gaming Association is seeking reforms in gaming regulations nationwide to help the industry keep pace with evolving technology. Frank Fahrenkopf, president and CEO of the association, said Tuesday the organization’s white paper, “Improving Gaming Regulation: 10 Recommendations for Streamlining Processes While Maintaining Integrity,” is designed to educate lawmakers and regulators nationwide about eliminating government red tape while keeping important restrictions in place.
How online gaming — particularly Internet poker — should be regulated, how it would be taxed and how the industry would prevent the wrong people from playing were discussed today in a panel on online gaming’s legal landscape.
When this Chinese peninsula's gaming market opened in 2002, Las Vegas moguls pounced, creating an opulent gold mine
Monday, Oct. 3, 2011
MACAU -- The cylinder-shaped hotel tower housing the Casino Lisboa was what defined gambling for decades in this 17-square-mile former Portuguese colony parked on the shore of the South China Sea. Lacking amenities, flash and class, it lived in Las Vegas’ shadow.
The four-day Global Gaming Expo opens today and will bring more than 25,000 people to the Sands Expo and Convention Center to see the latest casino innovations.
The riding public won’t see a taxi rate increase this year after the Nevada Taxicab Authority on Tuesday deadlocked on a proposal to raise the rate by 20 cents a mile. Representatives of two unions representing cab drivers asked the board that oversees 16 cab companies operating in Clark County to raise rates.
Passenger activity at McCarran International continued its upward trend in August with 4 percent more people using the city’s airport than in August 2010.
If the process for approving online poker regulations goes as smoothly as Monday's workshop explaining the proposed rules, Nevada will have a document in place in no time.
Allegiant Air will begin service between McCarran International Airport and Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport on Nov. 17 and fly six nonstop round trips a week. The airline will use 150-passenger twin-engine MD-80 jets on the route.
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.
Las Vegas resort guests will be able to gamble from their hotel rooms using mobile communications devices — a concept unheard of a decade ago — following unanimous approval Thursday of an amendment to regulations by the Nevada Gaming Commission.
A request by two companies to share race and sports book revenue generated by kiosks in a tavern chain was approved today by the Nevada Gaming Commission after the proposal appeared doomed to failure.