Newly appointed Nevada Gaming Commission member Randolph Townsend is offering his experience with the Nevada Legislature — he had been a senator representing Washoe County since 1982 — to keep the gaming industry’s concerns before lawmakers.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority today approved a $211 million budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year that includes an 18.1 percent decrease in the amount of money spent for advertising.
The new president and CEO of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce says the chamber would take a leadership role to bring the community together to pull Las Vegas out of the Great Recession.
Las Vegas has maintained its grip as the top destination on the Tradeshow Week 200, a list of the leading conventions and trade shows staged in North America in 2009.
South San Francisco resident Ralyn Lee and some of her friends have been looking forward to a Las Vegas getaway since February. She and three girlfriends booked reservations at Wynn Las Vegas and planned a two-night stay and maybe a visit to the hotel’s spa.
In the battle of the trains between Las Vegas and Southern California, first came the competition between the backers of a magnetic-levitation transportation system and the more conventional steel-wheels-on-rails DesertXpress.
Carole Fisher has spent most of her career in jobs that helped sick people get well. Now, she heads a nonprofit operation that helps terminally ill people die in peace.
Nevada political leaders are turning up the heat on the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to find out what happened to all the money the state was promised to start building a magnetic levitation transportation system between Las Vegas and Anaheim, Calif.
Southern Nevadans who have been watching the high-speed train story unfold are familiar with the verbal battle between the backers of a magnetic-levitation transportation system and the more conventional steel-wheels-on-rails DesertXpress train plan.
Operators of Las Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel say the free fall on hotel rates has ended in other properties run by the Morgans Hotel Group in other cities and a similar pattern is emerging in Las Vegas. Frederick Kleisner, CEO and a director for New York-based Morgans, told the state Gaming Control Board today that the company has seen a pattern of event-driven demand.
Arizona’s controversial new law aimed at illegal immigrants has some organizations considering canceling conventions and trade shows in Arizona, but the LVCVA is not trying to get those groups to move their events here. “While we certainly want to generate as much new business as we can, it’s not good business practice to capitalize on other destinations when they’re being unfairly portrayed or attacked,” said Vince Alberta, a spokesman for the LVCVA.
Canadian airline, on a hot streak, provides big lift to McCarran
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Nothing says “international travel” like the sight of a Virgin Atlantic Airways’ Boeing 747 jumbo jet from London floating in over the Strip every day. But the foreign air carrier that delivers the most international passengers to Las Vegas isn’t a household name.
Nothing says “international travel” like the sight of a Virgin Atlantic Airways’ Boeing 747 jumbo jet from London floating in over the Strip every day.
Decades of excess finally bite industry as recession lingers
Friday, April 30, 2010
The gaming industry is suffering the effects of a massive hangover brought on by the excesses of success in the 1990s and early 2000s, Harrah’s Entertainment’s top executive told 700 financial executives.
An international manufacturer of wind turbines has launched plans to build a plant in Southern Nevada, establishing its first manufacturing effort in the United States. The commitment by A-Power Energy Generation Systems, based in Shenyang, China, was marked in a gathering at UNLV on Tuesday among Chinese and U.S. government leaders and business partners from both nations.
As great an airport as McCarran International is for Southern Nevadans — you can hop on a nonstop flight to 133 destinations with average fares that are less expensive than just about anyplace else in the country — locals are not going to be happy with the new high-tech parking system.
Although VEGAS.com is the world’s largest city travel website, it’s only part of the story about the award-winning technology company that sells show and tour tickets to Las Vegas visitors.
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, the market leader at McCarran International Airport, continued its bid for a 38th straight year of profitability today, narrowly finishing in the black in the first quarter of 2010.
Las Vegas hotel rooms are more expensive this summer, and although tourists don’t like that, it’s great news for Southern Nevada because it means demand is going back up.
As two companies compete to be the first to provide high-speed rail service between Las Vegas and Southern California, a third is saying it will have a train click-clacking along next year. Las Vegas Railway Express will provide conventional passenger rail service to and from Los Angeles.
A prestigious world tourism conference that local leaders are calling "the Olympics of the tourism industry" will meet in Las Vegas next year, bringing hundreds of government dignitaries and industry professionals to the Strip. The London-based World Travel & Tourism Council announced today that the 11th annual Global Travel & Tourism Summit would be conducted at CityCenter's Aria resort May 15-19, 2011.
Mintel International, a data analysis company on consumer behavior and media, reports that although successful movies such as “Ocean’s Eleven” and “The Hangover” glamorize Las Vegas and gambling, fewer people are going to casinos.
An estimated 85,000 people will be in Las Vegas through next week for what usually is the city’s third-largest annual convention, the National Association of Broadcasters.
Henderson location opens despite new-car sales slowing down
Friday, April 9, 2010
Just because they work on expensive automobiles owned by people who seemingly have enough money to weather the economic storm, don’t think that Mercedes repair technicians haven’t had it tough during the Great Recession.
Virgin Atlantic Airways, the British air carrier operated by its flamboyant top executive, adventurer Richard Branson, will start twice-weekly nonstop air service between Manchester, England, and Las Vegas next year.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority has authorized the city's two largest groups of taxi companies to accept credit and debit card transactions for a $3 fee, but the issue is far from over.
Southern Nevada needs to capitalize on the strengths that have made it a world-class destination to get past the 13.8 percent unemployment rate and the record vacancies in the region’s residential, office, commercial and industrial real estate markets, an economics expert says.
The diversification of Nevada’s economy always seems to come up when times are bad, as in, “The reason things are so bad in our state is that we’re too dependent on the gaming industry.”
The proposed code-share partnership between Southwest Airlines, McCarran International Airport's busiest carrier, and WestJet Airlines, the largest source of international passengers to McCarran, might be in jeopardy.
The Nevada Commission on Tourism is considering reviving the Governor's Conference on Tourism with a low-budget gathering of industry leaders in December.
The airline industry’s recovery won’t necessarily lead to more flights in and out of Las Vegas, McCarran International Airport’s director told a Southern Nevada real estate organization.
Investors should look to the stock market to make money this year, the chief investment officer of City National Bank told a Las Vegas economic forum group last week.
Southwest Airlines will cut 116 of its 3,370 daily flights nationwide in August, but the good news for Las Vegas is that it will have a net gain of one daily flight as a result of the seasonal change.
Environmental approvals for the proposed $4 billion DesertXpress high-speed rail project between Las Vegas and Southern California are taking longer than expected, but executives with the project said Thursday they expect construction to begin this year. "It's all just process and working through the details," DesertXpress Enterprises President Tom Stone said in a media briefing on the project.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority has delayed a decision on a proposal from a group of taxi companies that would have enabled them to accept credit card and debit card transactions for rides in their cabs.
Sen. Harry Reid says he isn’t standing in the way of funding for the proposed maglev transportation system between Las Vegas and Southern California and that "no one is stopping" that system from making progress. Reid issued a press release Friday in response to a column in which critics questioned his handling of funding needs for a high-speed transportation system for Southern Nevada.
The lengthy construction schedule last year on Interstate 15 north of the Spaghetti Bowl made for miserable motorists and headache-filled commutes. And, apparently, smaller appetites for industrial real estate deals.
About a year ago, when the weather was getting nice and people were starting to think about going camping, the folks at Billings, Mont.-based Kampgrounds of America — KOA Kampgrounds — came up with this crazy idea about parking some “silver bullet” Airstream trailers at their facilities and letting campers rent them like hotel rooms.
Bruce Bommarito, U.S. Travel Association executive vice president and chief operating officer, tells a great story about how much the United States has been outspent by other countries marketing their tourism destinations.