The 10-day event, with a $11.5 million prize purse, has sold out 360 consecutive performances at the Thomas & Mack Center.
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More information on the delayed start of the country’s biggest rodeo will be announced Thursday.
While room rates aren’t as eye-popping as seen for the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix, they substantially exceed the prices seen in December 2022.
The annual gift show that runs along with National Finals Rodeo will take up more space this year at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Las Vegas is seeking to keep the NFR in Las Vegas, with some seeing the Oakland Athletics’ planned Southern Nevada ballpark as a potential landing spot.
Las Vegas’ resorts have bought into turning the city into a western festival during the National Finals Rodeo and the event’s success is assured with pent-up demand.
Las Vegas Events announced Saturday that it was launching a campaign called “There is ONLY One NFR/There is ONLY One Vegas.”
The COVID-19 pandemic was responsible for the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association opting to move NFR to Dallas this year, but the 10-day rodeo will be back in 2021.
The pandemic will move the National Finals Rodeo, one of the most successful special events on the Las Vegas calendar, to the home of baseball’s Texas Rangers this year.
In its 34th year, Cowboy Christmas and its more than 300 exhibitors take over more than seven and a half football fields worth of the Las Vegas Convention Center.