DesignerCon attracts more than 70,000 attendees each year and hundreds more artists and vendors.
Conventions
The massive World Market Center complex next to Interstate-15 has been open since 2005 and brings thousands of visitors to Las Vegas each year.
The CinemaCon trade show at Caesars Palace offered plenty of ideas for new revenue streams, along with the viral “Dune: Part Two” popcorn bucket.
Those massive movies were showcased during the annual gathering of the National Association of Theatre Owners at Caesars Palace.
The famous Las Vegas venue, which has already hosted U2 and booked a UFC sporting event, has landed its first business conference customer.
The Consumer Electronics Association is requiring additional health and safety procedures for early arrivals to CES from China, Hong Kong and Macao.
The world’s largest consumer electronics event is scheduled to begin its four-day run on Jan. 5 at several Las Vegas venues.
The union authorized a walkout against the center’s food service provider in a unanimous vote, but bargaining teams are still negotiating a contract.
After announcing plans for a strike vote against Sodexo Centerplate last month, the process has begun and results are expected to be revealed Friday or Saturday.
Metaverse, Web 3, health-care technology and food tech will be a part the show expected to attract 100,000 to the city and kick off 2023 conventions in Las Vegas.
With CES on the horizon in early January, more than 300 Culinary Union members could authorize a strike against food-service provider Sodexo next month.
There may be some anxious months leading to the awarding of the first construction contract for the $600 million project because of market volatility.
Some of the technology upgrades have been completed, but the makeover of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center will continue through the end of 2024.
The two-month, $597.6 million project is expected to take two years, starts in March after ConExpo-ConAg and includes six time frames when there will be no work done.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors rewarded executives for their efforts to rebound from the COVID-19 tourism downturn.