With the sluggish Las Vegas convention industry and the sputtering automotive industry, local tourism leaders were asking an important question last week: Just how good would this year’s Specialty Equipment Market Association show be for business?
A growing Australian slot machine manufacturer, hoping to make Las Vegas a base of operations for its North American distribution, cleared an important hurdle Nov. 4 when the state Gaming Control Board recommended a license and its registration as a public company.
US Airways’ announcement last week that it would cut more capacity at McCarran International Airport next year was a surprising development to tourism and aviation analysts, but not a knock-out punch, they say.
When Jacob Snow, the general manager of the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, shared the outline of a new group that calls itself the Western High-Speed Rail Alliance, many, including me, got pretty excited about the prospects, even though I figured the end result probably wouldn’t be something I’d see in my lifetime.
Southwest Airlines hopes to enhance its reputation for being green, as in profitable, by being “green,” as in environmentally responsible, with new initiatives that not only move the needle on sustainability, but should save it millions of dollars.
The parent company of a Las Vegas-based airline continues to roll despite challenging the recession, while another, the second busiest at McCarran International Airport, narrowed its earnings losses.
Just as Southern Nevada has begun claiming some small victories in its rebound from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, along comes another potential setback: concerns over whether travelers would stay at home to avoid being exposed to persons carrying the H1N1 virus.
IMEX, a major international exhibition for meetings and incentive travel professionals, will have a version in Las Vegas in 2011. The inaugural IMEX America is planned at the Sands Expo Center Oct. 11-13, 2011, and is expected to draw leaders in the U.S. meetings industry as well as representatives from convention centers and large hotels from across the country.
Nevada Gaming commissioners didn’t hide the fact that they were a little nervous about granting a license to LV Casino LLC to operate Lake Tahoe Horizon Casino.
Longtime Las Vegas resident Somer Hollingsworth is president and CEO of the Nevada Development Authority, but it seems his favorite pastime is getting under the skin of California leaders trying to prevent businesses from leaving that state.
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, the market leader at McCarran International Airport, narrowed losses in a third quarter that would have been profitable had it not been for a one-time charge related to early retirement buyouts.
Backers of three upstart transportation systems vying to be the ride of the future could all agree on one thing at a forum conducted Monday night at UNLV – it won’t be easy for them to be accepted by the public and by regulators when their ideas are so far from mainstream thinking.
DesertXpress, maglev aren’t the only ideas for high-speed trains
Monday, Oct. 19, 2009
We have all heard about the two high-speed rail proposals that promise to whisk passengers between Las Vegas and Southern California in little more than an hour, the steel-wheels-on-rails DesertXpress and the magnetically propelled maglev train.
Convention attendance took a big hit in August, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority said, with the number of shows for the month down 22 percent over last year and attendance off 58.9 percent to 235,841.
We have all heard about those two high-speed rail proposals that promise to whisk passengers between Las Vegas and Southern California in little more than an hour.
In the early days of flying, when airplanes were contracted to move the U.S. mail, aviators used roads and rail lines to find their way across the country. Pilots would simply fly over established routes to their destination.
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, the market leader at McCarran International Airport, narrowed losses in a third quarter that would have been profitable had it not been for a one-time charge related to early-retirement buyouts.
Legislation establishing a one-stop shop for businesspeople to renew licenses and pay fees online not only is expected to make it easier for small businesses to operate in the state but generate millions of dollars in taxes that went unpaid for years.
Reno-Tahoe area looking at bid for 2018 or 2022 Winter Games
Friday, Oct. 2, 2009
Representatives of the Reno-Tahoe Winter Sports Coalition hope to learn within weeks how Chicago’s failed bid for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games would affect efforts to attract the Winter Olympics to Nevada and California.
In these times of identity theft and credit card scams, you know that sinking feeling you get when you pay for a meal at a restaurant and the server walks away with your Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover credit or debit card.
When John Gibson steps down as CEO of Las Vegas-based American Pacific Corp. later this year, it will mark the first time since 1955 — when the company was founded — that the Gibson name will not be atop a list of key executives.
One of the leading supporters of tech companies in the state is the Technology Business Alliance of Nevada. So it should come as no surprise that Rich Lope is the president of the alliance.
McCarran International Airport has now had declining monthly passenger traffic for a year and a half after the Clark County Aviation Department reported 9.8 percent fewer customers in August over the same month a year ago.
If developers of a magnetic levitation transportation system linking Las Vegas with Anaheim, Calif., are worried about some of the political issues that could hamper their proposed $12 billion project, they didn’t show it Monday night.
Perseverance, optimism and good, old-fashioned hard work were what vaulted four small companies and a nonprofit organization to the top as the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce last week announced the winners of its 2009 Small-Business Excellence Awards.
A Las Vegas company that is working to develop slot machines that can match a gambler’s desired pace of play has been licensed by the Nevada Gaming Commission.
It’s quite an electric scene, those casino nightclubs. But in their quest to have a wild time in Vegas, some clubbers misbehaved. And, in their bid to be recognized as the hippest place in town, club managers looked the other way.
Paris-based XL Airways, a charter carrier with five planes in its fleet, is expected to begin twice-a-week direct air service between Paris and Las Vegas next summer. The report was unclear on whether the flights would be nonstop.
People who have seen the transformation of downtown Las Vegas’ Gold Spike can’t wait to see what Stephen Siegel, president and CEO of the Siegel Group, has in store for his newest property, the St. Tropez.
When state Gaming Control Board investigators uncovered violations at Prive nightclub at Planet Hollywood in July, it didn’t take long for the issue to take center stage in the court of public opinion.
It’s no secret that Southern Nevada’s tourism economy is suffering big-time because of the recession. Now, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is feeling the financial pinch and has a plan to cut its workforce.
No decision has been reached on whether a scaled-down version of the Governor’s Tourism Conference will be held in December, but one thing is fairly certain: The conference won’t be held along with a larger event such as the Nevada Hotel & Lodging Association show.