After a visitation bounceback month in July, travelers slowed the pace in August and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority believes the delta variant caused it.
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The 3.8 million passengers that went through McCarran last month amounted to a 14 percent decline from the same month in 2019, when 4.4 million passengers passed through.
For hotels, resorts and the hospitality industry at large, the new era of higher-tech and lower-touch ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic is likely here to stay.
Twice-weekly flights will be between Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport and Eureka, California’s Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport.
In addition to the restaurant, an expansion of the Nobu brand through its partnership with Caesars Entertainment includes a multimillion-dollar update for Caesars’ Nobu Hotel and plans for Nobu Hotels at Harrah’s New Orleans and Caesars Atlantic City.
Travel industry leaders were still walking on air Tuesday morning thanks to news that fully vaccinated foreign nationals could again visit the U.S. starting November.
A large number of international attendees will make the U.S. Travel Association’s IPW an important gathering to show off Las Vegas to leisure and business travel buyers.
The U.S. on Monday announced plans to ease international airline travel restrictions to allow vaccinated foreign nationals to once again travel to the country starting this fall.
Tourism Director Brenda Scolari and Commission Vice Chair Cynthia Mun are ready to work on state tourism initiatives despite the loss of resigning Lt. Gov. Kate Marshall.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority will get more than half of the $13.65 million in federal pandemic recovery funds to help market tourism.
Ex-Allegiant Air executives set strategies for West and East Coast operations of Avelo Airlines, which had inaugural flights Thursday between Las Vegas and Sonoma County.
The supplemental is an additional commercial airport being planned by the DOA and Federal Aviation Administration to serve the Las Vegas region.
The National Association of Broadcasters show is one of Las Vegas’ top three annual trade show gatherings by attendance. The annual convention was set to take place Oct. 9-13.
Steve Hill, the LVCVA’s president and CEO, said employees had to prove COVID-19 vaccination or submit to weekly testing.
The passage of key legislation funding infrastructure should help the mining industry thrive, panelists agreed during the Monday kickoff address of the MINExpo trade show in Las Vegas.