The High Roller opened for business Monday five days after Clark County officials certified the wheel’s safety and operating and safety procedures and granted the Linq’s management team an operating permit.
Tourism
For the latest Las Vegas tourism news and stats let the Las Vegas Review-Journal be your top source.
Las Vegas is getting smaller. That is, if you call 1,600-room and 1,100-room Strip hotels “boutique” properties. By the end of the year, Las Vegas will have about a half-dozen hotel-casinos that operators classify as “boutique,” “luxury” or “lifestyle” in their marketing efforts.
The city of Henderson envisions itself becoming a nationally recognized bicycle community, the type that lures tourist dollars as a destination.
Las Vegas tourism is two-for-two so far in 2014. Year-to-date visitation rose 5.8 percent in February, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. In all, 6.5 million people have come to the city this year, up from the 6.2 million who came at this point in 2013.
A consultant for the UNLV stadium board Thursday recommended building a new on-campus multi-purpose stadium with a capacity of 50,000 to 60,000 seats and offered a slew of proposed events the stadium could potentially host.
Nevada will try to draw more Millennials and young Generation X travelers to the state after receiving a travel research report that shows they take more trips than typical American leisure travelers and baby boomers.
Vikings, topical urinal screens, vaporized alcohol shots and Star Trek beer, oh my. The 2014 Nightclub & Bar Show featured a slew of new products this week that drew crowds and made some innovative entrepreneurs very busy.
Passenger counts at McCarran International Airport climbed for the fifth straight month in February with international arrivals continuing to lead the way.
Organizers of the Reno National Championship Air Races said they plan more of a festival atmosphere at 51st competition at Reno Stead Airport in September.
The industry-only Pizza Expo 2014 runs through Thursday at the Las Vegas Convention Center’s North Hall. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is estimating the number of attendees to be 12,000, bringing a nongaming economic impact of $15.1 million to the city.
The 2014 Nightclub & Bar Show’s exhibition starts Tuesday at the Las Vegas Convention Center, led by Jon Taffer, the trade show’s founder and host of Spike TV’s “Bar Rescue” show. Taffer’s trade show, in its 29th year, is bigger than ever.
Another Las Vegas entity wants to sell naming rights — and this time it’s for an LED screen.
Allegiant Air’s Las Vegas-based parent, which has grown from nothing to $1 billion in revenue since 1999 by connecting small and midsized towns with major vacation spots, offered a peek at this intriguing sidelight in its fourth-quarter report.
About 10 magnifying glasses supported on long, thin pieces of metal are bunched together, giving off the effect of a glass garden. Perched about waist-high, the glasses revealed the small pictures and phrases placed behind them, all part of a social media scavenger hunt.
Lee Butts plans to modernize Helldorado Days, an 80-year-old Las Vegas tradition, as its new executive director and production manager.
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