Las Vegas is on pace to break its visitor volume record, and a new survey forecasts the city’s travel fortunes will brighten further.
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Allegiant Air on Thursday launched nonstop flights from Las Vegas to Kansas City, Missouri, with company officials estimating that the new route will bring more than 21,000 additional tourists to Las Vegas.
An undisclosed number of people who used credit cards at 20 Hyatt, Sheraton, Marriott, Westin and other hotels in 10 states and the District of Columbia might have had their cards compromised as a result of hack of the hotels’ payment system.
Allegiant Air has served Las Vegas and resort cities in Florida for a long time. But by fall, the Las Vegas-based deep-discount air carrier will link them for the first time, inaugurating service between McCarran International Airport and Destin, Florida.
Walt Disney Co. has had more than 240 “nuisance” alligators captured and killed over the last 10 years at its Florida theme park property, according to state records.
Two state-of-the-art airport towers due to go into operation this fall in San Francisco and Las Vegas will first need extensive remodeling to make room for technology that dates backs to the early days of air traffic control, according to union officials.
It’s now possible to trek around some of Nevada’s remote countryside without leaving the couch, thanks to the Google Trekker and about a dozen volunteers who carried the high-tech contraption around the state.
“Seinfeld” fans laughed years ago when Cosmo Kramer came up with the idea to open a pizzeria where customers could build their own pizza. Today, the Kramer fantasy is reality as hundreds of pizzerias nationwide have embraced the concept.