Visitation to Las Vegas inched up slightly in January while the average daily room rate soared to its highest level since September 2007, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported Friday.
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Passenger counts at McCarran International Airport started 2015 the way they left off in 2014 — with a slow and steady climb.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air will expand its route system by nearly 9 percent with the addition of 22 new round-trip flights in May and June, the company announced Tuesday.
For a decade, north Strip casino operators anticipated a redevelopment of the area that would include new megaresorts and entertainment complexes rivaling projects underway on the boulevard’s southern end.
The state’s new Global Tourism Summit — the event replacing the annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism — will be Nov. 16-17 in Southern Nevada, an executive with the Nevada Tourism Commission said Tuesday.
U.S. airlines have lost at least five percentage points of their share of flight bookings from the United States to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia since 2008, due to fierce competition from Gulf carriers, according to data seen by Reuters.
Two decades ago, local leaders took innovative steps to move pedestrian traffic across the Las Vegas Strip at what then was the busiest intersection in town.
A state board on Tuesday approved a $20.2 million contract with an out-of-state firm to market Nevada to tourists.