A deep discount carrier has added flights for locals to escape Super Bowl crowds in Las Vegas with trips to other West Coast locations.
Richard N. Velotta
Richard N. “Rick” Velotta has covered business, the gaming industry, tourism, transportation and aviation in Las Vegas for 25 years. A former reporter and editor with the Las Vegas Sun, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Aurora (Colo.) Sun, Velotta is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he won the school’s top journalism honor. He became the Review-Journal's assistant business editor in September 2018.
Records were set statewide, in Clark County and on the Strip, according to statistics released Wednesday.
Crews at The Venetian are building a special platform for guests to view this month’s Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix, but gondoliers are still performing inside.
Somebody ripped some holes in screens attached to the overpass glass designed to block views of the Formula One race course.
Hotel occupancy dropped from the same month last year, but room rates remained high and convention attendance continued to soar, the LVCVA said.
While several Southern Nevada gaming submarkets showed declines from a year ago, the Strip gaming win continued to churn by collecting $741.2M from gamblers.
Flight attendants for American and United Airlines seek higher pay with informational picket lines at Harry Reid International Airport terminals.
Airport and Strip attractions will be busier than normal for the three-day Labor Day weekend and resorts are expected to have 92 percent occupancy rates.
As the Strat prepares for large crowds for the Las Vegas Grand Prix, a major room renovation project resulted in declines in revenue for the second quarter.
The average daily room rate fell 3.3 percent to $171.05 a night, in part because of the high bar set in April 2022 when Las Vegas hosted the NFL draft.
The spending will include support for special events such as National Finals Rodeo, the Las Vegas Grand Prix and the Super Bowl.
Strong casino performances on Strip, downtown and Sparks offset weakness in Lake Tahoe as Nevada Gaming Control Board reports a record for April.
Las Vegas saw 38.8 million visitors last year, a 20.5 percent increase compared with 2021. But the double digit percentage increase was not enough to beat the city’s 2016 record of 42.9 million visitors.
There are some restrictions, but all flights, domestic and international, will only cost 1 cent plus taxes and fees for five months later this summer.
A perfect storm of positives pumped up the state’s gaming revenue last year, including one more weekend day in 2022 than 2021 and a robust calendar of sports and entertainment events.