“Typically, going into a holiday weekend, drivers can expect gas prices to increase,” said AAA Nevada spokesman Sergio Avila. “That includes here in Las Vegas and Nevada as a whole.”
Tourism
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Las Vegas resorts are preparing to welcome a flood of visitors for what many say will be a milestone event in the city’s rebound.
A local couple hasn’t pieced together why their Crockfords luxury hotel room reservation fell through at the newly opened Strip resort.
Thousands celebrated Thursday during the opening of the newest hotel in Las Vegas, the $4.3 billion Resorts World Las Vegas. It’s the first new resort on the Strip since The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas opened in 2010.
UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research predicts that visitor volume in Southern Nevada will climb 57 percent this year and 13.2 percent next year, following its 55.2 percent drop in 2020.
Resorts World Las Vegas will feature a cash-free casino management system and a video wall that can be seen for miles.
At 11 p.m. Thursday, Resorts World will open the doors of its 3,500-room integrated resort on the site once home to the storied Stardust.
Resorts World Las Vegas will incorporate three of Hilton’s premium brands when it opens Thursday, each with its own lobby and porte cochère.
The company behind a planned high-speed rail line from Las Vegas to Victorville, California, is putting on the brakes until at least 2022.
The most notable feature of the concourse-wide update was removing the carpet in the walkways and adding in terrazzo flooring, which offers travelers a glitzy Las Vegas welcome.
Members of the media got a chance to check out the MSG Sphere’s most recent construction milestone during a tour.
The long-planned $4.3 billion property could bring more tourists to the north Strip and a surge of visitors overall to Las Vegas.
The center-Strip hotel-casino received 2,542 guest room upgrades, a remodeled casino floor and new LED marquees at its north and south entrances, parent company Caesars Entertainment Corp. announced.
The new route between Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport and Bellingham, Washington, will begin Nov. 7, Southwest announced Thursday.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is looking toward possible arbitration to settle a dispute over its naming rights deal with the Las Vegas Ballpark.