The event planned at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center has attracted around 25,000 people with 5,000 brands and 16,000 retailers from 70 countries in the past.
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Several leading tourism industry categories showed improvement over 2020 levels — but not all of them. The LVCVA said visitation and convention traffic was up in 2021.
While Las Vegas Market organizers expect to draw about 60 percent of the attendance it had in pre-pandemic years, many vendors are finding that those who are in town have been spending more.
The U.S. hotel industry will continue to bounce back throughout 2022, but that road is expected to be uneven, according to a new report from American Hotel and Lodging Association.
The biannual Las Vegas Market trade show — which gathers buyers and hundreds of vendors — kicked off Sunday and runs through Thursday with pandemic-era masking requirements.
Cement masons, engineers and artisans at World of Concrete encouraged more women to consider the trades for their unique work and good wages.
“Businesses of the buyers are just off the charts good and they need inventory. They need new merchandise,” Bob Maricich, CEO of International Market Centers, said of the home furnishings show.
Vendors showed off the latest and greatest in sports merchandise and tailgating accessories Wednesday, highlighted by a custom $30,000 Raiders watch.
“I wanted to lay a perfect wall,” said Cole Stamper, the newly minted champion of the Spec Mix Bricklayer 500 at the World of Concrete. “Straight, plumb level, straight and perfect — and that’s what it was.”
For the 23rd time, the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show — or SHOT Show — is welcoming thousands of industry professionals to Las Vegas this week. It expects to draw over 40,000 attendees.