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.
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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.
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.”
Organizers expect more people to attend this year’s show, which opened Tuesday, than were at last year’s event and that numbers of attendees will be closer to those seen at pre-pandemic events.
With World of Concrete and the SHOT Show conventions this week and NAB around the corner, the meetings industry assesses what the attendance outlook will be in 2022.
The remaining Abbott BinaxNOW COVID-19 Self Test kits that were given out free at CES are being donated to the Southern Nevada Health District for public distribution.
The omicron variant of COVID-19 was believed to be the reason less than a quarter of the usual CES attendance was in Las Vegas for the shortened three-day tech show.
Smart city technology helps cities tackle dangerous driving and extreme weather, but Las Vegas officials and tech firms have more ambitious plans of what the technology can do.