After a fair record for predicting 2022, my 2023 crystal ball sees gaming success here and in Macao, new flights to Japan and an F1 letdown.
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Investors will spend at least $3.2 billion, add 4,758 hotel rooms and 581,000 square feet of meeting and convention space in projects set for completion next year.
The Mohegan, San Manuel and Seminole tribes paced the expansion of gaming in Nevada in 2022 as well as the city’s emergence as the ‘Greatest Arena on Earth’ for tourism.
An estimated 3.6 million people visited Southern Nevada in October, 7.3 percent ahead of last year and just 0.8 percent off October 2019.
The sale of 10 acres at Las Vegas and Elvis Presley boulevards for $120 million to Claudio Fischer should be completed by mid-December. But what does he have planned?
In operation for 36 years, Michael Gaughan’s Airport Slot Concession Inc. helps keep operational costs down, which means lower ticket prices on Las Vegas flights.
Caesars Palace Dubai is already in operation, but MGM Resorts International and Wynn Resorts Ltd. have high hopes for luxury resorts in the United Arab Emirates.
Wynn Las Vegas is partnering with quarterback Tom Brady’s health and wellness company, TB12, to provide body coaching for guests and Southern Nevada residents.
With millions of Instagram posts of Las Vegas casinos, including the most posted Bellagio fountains, the city’s resorts are getting a boost with little financial outlay.
The Tropicana will stay Tropicana for now but could adopt a Bally’s brand, and the existing Bally’s property will officially take on the Horseshoe Las Vegas name on Thursday.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. and its Marina Bay Sands resort hope to develop tourism talent pipeline with the new scholarship program.
Although the shortage of water could someday be a limiting factor, two gaming experts addressing NAIOP say Strip growth opportunities keep them bullish on what’s ahead.
After the second full day of a shutdown in Macao, the normally bustling streets were empty and stock shares for Las Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts were down.
If you’re under 21, don’t expect to get in at Circa or El Cortez. Their leaders are happy with their decisions, but they don’t expect any other properties to join them.
Oak View Group’s planned 2,000-room resort and 20,000-seat NBA-ready arena on the south Strip are scheduled for a groundbreaking next year and an expected opening in 2026.